The Double Game, Dan Fesperman
The Double Game, Dan Fesperman
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The Double Game

Author: Dan Fesperman

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 12 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/21/2012

Synopsis

A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a Foreign Service brat who grew up in the very cities where Lemaster’s books were set, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career in journalism.More than two decades later, Cage, now a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper into Lemaster’s pronouncement. Spiked with cryptic references to some of Cage’s favorite spy novels, the note is the first of many literary bread crumbs that lead him back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, each instruction drawing him closer to the complex truth, each giving rise to more questions: Why is beautiful Litzi Strauss back in his life after thirty years? How much of his father’s job involved the CIA? As the events of Lemaster’s past eerily—and dangerously—begin intersecting with those of Cage’s own, a “long stalemate of secrecy” may finally be coming to an end.A story about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, duplicity and loyalty, The Double Game ingeniously taps the espionage classics of the Cold War to build a spellbinding maze of intrigue. It is Dan Fesperman’s most audacious, suspenseful, and satisfying novel yet.

About Dan Fesperman

Dan Fesperman’s travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantánamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony on September 22, 2012

On the strength of having enjoyed Fesperman's debut novel (Lie in the Dark), I decided to pick this new one up to see if should hunt down his backlist. But it's never a good sign when a book lingers on my nightstand once I've cracked it open, and this one lingered for several months, generally faili......more

Goodreads review by Philip on July 16, 2012

"The Double Game" by Dan Fesperman is a great read, the most enjoyable espionage novel I've read in years. It's also a veritable homage to spy fiction from decades past, with lines from earlier novels providing clues and plot points to the unfolding mystery. Terrific dialogue, characters, and suspen......more

Goodreads review by Ed on October 30, 2012

Thoroughly entertaining, highly readable modern spy novel with the unique twist that its winding plot involves the works of past spy fiction writers. So, if, like me, you haven't gotten around to reading that many spy novels, this one will introduce you to many of the genre's masters as well as deli......more

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on February 11, 2014

THE DOUBLE GAME is a suspenseful spy novel literally torn from the pages of the masters of the genre, Eric Ambler, John LeCarré , Len Deighton and Adam Hall. The main character, Bill Page, is, like his father Warfield, an avid fan of the genre and a collector of first editions. Much of Bill's childh......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on April 08, 2013

A lifelong fan of spy novels is led through Europe by a series of clues pulled right from the pages of his favorite books in Dan Fesperman's THE DOUBLE GAME. If someone left you a riddle written on a page torn from your favorite book, would you drop everything and jet off to Europe? If your answer i......more

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