Dan Fesperman

An exhilarating spy thriller, Winter Work is inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall....

West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when she overhears a meeting between two people speaking a coded language....

At 1a.m. in a deserted Pennsylvania library, Nat Turnbull's cell phone rings. His former mentor, Professor Gordon Wolfe, has been arrested by the FBI for stealing top-secret archive documents....

Freeman Lockhart is working for his old friend Omar in Amman, Jordan - and spying on him too. Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, Aliyah Rahim is spying on her husband, Abbas....

A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall....

Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, is only mildly surprised when his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives....

From the author of The Double Game (one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012): a viscerally and psychologically gripping novel about drone warfare....

As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world....

Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change....

Into a smoky chaos of sprawling humanity comes Skelly, a burned-out American war correspondent, now in harness again, thanks to a messy divorce and too many children....

Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo....

Who exactly is Danziger? He's a writer of letters for illiterate immigrants on Manhattan's Lower East Side - "a steadfast practitioner of concealing and forgetting" for his clients, and perhaps for himself....