Dan Fesperman

Safe Houses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

West Berlin, October 1979. Helen Abell is a young American, employed by the CIA to oversee a number of safe houses. She arrives in Berlin, expecting excitement and intrigue, and is disappointed to find the city a Cold War backwater.

But one night, during a routine house inspection, she stumbles upon two dark but very different secrets. If made public, they could damage the careers of high-ranking people with powerful ambitions. But Helen decides that the price of silence might be costlier still, so she covertly works to reveal the truth even as she risks her career.

Maryland, August 2014. In a small farming town, a young man called Willard Shoat gets up one night and shoots his parents while they are sleeping. His sister Anna hires a private investigator to help her understand her brother's motives. As they delve into the events leading up to her parents' deaths, Anna uncovers some startling secrets from her mother's past...

'An intelligent novel with psychology foregrounded... But can also raise readers' pulses' GUARDIAN.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Head of Zeus
• UK Airports
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781788547871
• ISBN-10: 178854787X
• Artikelnr.: 53566343

Autorenporträt

Dan Fesperman, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, is an award-winning author whose thrillers have won the John Creasey and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers as well as the Hammett Prize. His plots are inspired by his own international assignments in Germany, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and their two children.Follow Dan at www.danfesperman.com

Rezensionen

'Fesperman raises the bar sky-high with this one. Smart, sophisticated, suspenseful, and intensely human. One of the great espionage novels of our time' Lee Child