Dan Fesperman. (2012). The Double Game. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Dan Fesperman. 2012. The Double Game. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Dan Fesperman, The Double Game. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012.

Dan Fesperman. The Double Game. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012.

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   • bioText: 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.
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From the acclaimed author of Layover in Dubai—the story of a journalist’s journey to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth about a spy-turned-novelist’s decades of dark secrets…
“As fiendishly clever a spy story as you could hope for…. A guaranteed delight for any espionage fan.” —The Seattle Times
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 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 piece of a puzzle that will lead Cage back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth, even as he discovers that the ghosts of Lemaster’s past eerily—and dangerously—still haunt the present. As the suspense steadily increases, decades of secrets begin to unravel….

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   • source: The Daily Beast
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     "A spy novel about spy novels, calculated to deliver a maximum dose of fun for the genre fan . . . Breezing through The Double Game is like encountering 30 spy classics . . . Fesperman's book is a triple, quadruple, quintuple game, thrilling and fun."

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   • source: Olen Steinhauer, author of An American Spy
   • content: "The Double Game is not just a spy novel--it's a love letter to the genre, renditioning the unwary reader and dropping him into a dizzying pastiche of classic espionage, cleverly woven into a thrilling story. Brilliantly executed and a joy from start to finish."
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   • content: "A beautifully written book [from] the highly accomplished Fesperman, a veteran of the sophisticated, literary novel of intrigue."
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     August 27, 2012
     The highly accomplished Fesperman (Lie in the Dark), a veteran of the sophisticated, literary novel of intrigue, makes spy fiction a central "character" in this ambitious—but overly complex—story involving journalist turned PR man Bill Cage. The action opens in 1984, when Cage interviews Edwin Lemaster, a spy who became "the world's premier espionage novelist," and elicits a vague confession: that he might have betrayed his country just "or the thrill of it." Fast forward to 2010 when Cage receives a hand-delivered letter—typed on his own stationary and on his own typewriter—that promises to deliver "the whole truth" about Lemaster. Cage plays along, deciphering the clue in the first note to find a "dead drop" to receive further instructions. The trail takes him to Vienna, where he had lived as a teenager with his father, a member of the diplomatic corps who might have had a toe in the world of espionage. One clue leads him to a meeting with his old flame, Litzi Strauss, and together they travel to Prague and Budapest. Cage is enveloped in a fog of intrigue, but it feels too much like an elaborate game—no real menace, nothing really at stake—and the reader's patience wears thin while trying to make sense of the intricately constructed and highly contrived plot. Still, perceptive readers—particularly those familiar with the spy literature—might still enjoy this beautifully written book. First printing: 40,000.

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     December 1, 2012
     In 1984, young Washington Post writer Bill Cage ignited a miniscandal by reporting that spy novelist Edwin Lemaster--"the American John le Carre"--had considered working as a Soviet double agent when he was with the CIA. More than 25 years later, Cage follows up his story for Vanity Fair--duly warned by his father, a former diplomat who knew Lemaster, to watch his back. The distinguishing feature of Fesperman's nostalgia-soaked novel is that its clues and secret instructions take the form of quoted passages from classic spy novels by le Carre, Eric Ambler, Len Deighton, Charles McCarry, etc. Like his father, Warfield, Cage is a spy buff who can quote from those books (and Lemaster's) verbatim. He secures the magazine assignment mainly as an excuse to leave his dreary PR job and return to his childhood haunts in Vienna, Prague, Berlin and Budapest. But, stoked by anonymous tips, odd coincidences and revelations about his secretive old man, he soon becomes obsessed over solving the mysteries of Lemaster's past. The romantic stakes are raised when Bill's boyhood girlfriend, Litzi, turns up in Vienna; feelings of nostalgia are disrupted when a player in this espionage drama gets shot in the face, KGB-style. Fans of spy novels will enjoy Fesperman's affectionate homage. As literate and well-executed as this book is, however, it lacks the deeper dimensions that would make it more than a clever generic exercise. The father-son business, also involving Cage's child, David, is affecting, but held against the high standards of le Carre's A Perfect Spy, it is lightweight. Has its limitations, but in re-sparking interest in classic spy fiction, it attains maximum impact.

     COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 1, 2012
     

     Winner of a couple of daggers from the Crime Writers' Association, plus the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers, Fesperman knows the spy genre well enough to introduce echoes of John le Carre and others into his newest thriller. No word yet on plot--this just dropped into the schedule--but settings in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest suggest dark glamour and events rooted in the Cold War legacy of World War II.

     Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from September 15, 2012
     In the mid-1980s, journalist Bill Cage inadvertently reveals a startling secret about best-selling spy turned novelist Edwin Lemaster. Many years later, Cagenow a former journalist, his own career, like Lemaster's, never having recovered from that incidentis lured into a web of intrigue by a nameless individual who hints that, with his Lemaster revelation, Cage had only scratched the surface. What's especially clever here is the way Cage's anonymous handler (for Cage soon thinks of himself as a spy being run by an unknown operator) uses works of spy fiction to communicateencoded messages rely on Cage's virtually encyclopedic knowledge of spy fiction, and shadowy characters who wander in and out of the story bear physical resemblance to characters in spy novels (and, of course, Lemaster himself, the focal point of the intrigue, is a hugely popular spy novelist, a sort of American le Carre). At once a celebration of some of the genre's best authors and a smartly constructed and thoroughly modern spy story, this is a surefire hit and a must for anyone who reveres the espionage masters.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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“As fiendishly clever a spy story as you could hope for…. A guaranteed delight for any espionage fan.” —The Seattle Times
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