Dan Fesperman is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and has covered the civil war in the former Yugoslavia and the recent war in Afghanistan. He is the author of three novels. The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won the Crime Writer's Association of Britain's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller writing in 2003 and Lie in the Dark won the John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel in 2000.
