Safe Houses

Safe Houses

by Dan Fesperman (Author), Dan Fesperman (Author), Dan Fesperman (Author)

Synopsis

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 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. Willard has always been slow, but never violent. Could someone have influenced him? As they delve into the events leading up to her parents' deaths, Anna uncovers a whole side to her mother that she never knew about...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 13 Dec 2018

ISBN 10: 1788547861
ISBN 13: 9781788547864
Book Overview:

Anna is determined to understand why her brother apparently murdered first their father, then their mother, while they slept at their small farm in Maryland. The trail will lead her to events set in motion during one night nearly four decades ago in a Berlin safe house run by the CIA.


Media Reviews
'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.
'Prolific spy novelist Fesperman delivers another winner, this one as fiendishly clever as it is richly entertaining' Kirkus Reviews.
'A terrific book combining the gripping immediacy of a present-day murder mystery with the high-stakes sexy intrigue of a Cold War espionage thriller' Chris Pavone, bestselling author of The Expats.
Author Bio

A former reporter for The Batlimore Sun, Dan Fesperman is now an award-winning author, whose thriller novels have won the John Creasey and the Ian Fleming Steel Daggers as well as the Hammett Prize. His plots were 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.