The Double Game (ARC)

550 Pages·2012·1.6 MB·English

by  Fesperman Dan

The Double Game
By Dan Fesperman About the Book
A thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets, fathers
and sons, lovers and fate, and duplicity and loyalty—a maze of
intrigue built from the espionage classics of the Cold War.
A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist
Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he”d
once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a fan who grew up as a
Foreign Service brat in the very cities where Lemaster set his plots, the
story creates a brief but embarrassing sensation. More than two decades
later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an
anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. Spiked with
cryptic references to some of his and his father”s favorite old spy novels,
the note is the first of many literary bread crumbs that soon lead him
back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth, even as the
events of Lemaster”s past eerily—and dangerously—begin intersecting
with those of his own. Why is beautiful Litzi Strauss back in his life after
thirty years? How much of his father”s job involved the CIA? Did Bill, as
a child, become a pawn? As the suspense steadily increases, a “long
stalemate of secrecy” may finally be broken.
Published by Knopf, August 2012
About the Author
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.
ALSO BY DAN FESPERMAN
Layover in Dubai
The Arms Maker of Berlin
The Amateur Spy
The Prisoner of Guantánamo
The Warlord’s Son
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows
Lie in the Dark

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2012 by Dan Fesperman All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random
House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data [to come]
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living
or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover photograph
Cover design by [TK]
[dedication TK]
Contents
Cover
About the Book
About the Author
Also by This Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
A Precaution
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28