Winter Work

Winter Work vividly captures those chaotic first months after the Berlin Wall came down, with East Germany in free fall and once feared Stasi officers running for cover into the hands of their former enemies. An entertaining thriller about a society turned upside down -- Joseph Kanon, New York Times bestselling author of Istanbul Passage and The Good German So fluent, so clever. Fesperman brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of post-Communist Europe. Winter Work confirms that he belongs alongside Joseph Kanon and David Ignatius in the front rank of American spy novelists -- Charles Cumming An engrossing, deep-in-the-weeds thriller * Kirkus * Dan Fesperman has been a fave author of mine since Lie in the Dark: brilliant in conception, and faultlessly delivered. Many books later, he's delivered the same formula in Winter Work. The Cold War is abruptly over. The rules have changed but the war's survivors are struggling to adapt. Into this lethal turmoil, Fesperman injects an acute sense of place, and a mastery of the many consequences of failure. A nastier, more brutal Russia casts a long shadow, with an unmistakeably contemporary resonance. Read, enjoy, and ponder -- Graham Hurley Dan Fesperman is one of my favorite thriller writers, and Winter Work is a brilliant addition to his magnificent oeuvre. Intelligently written and plotted, based on fact as gripping as any fiction and only improved by Fesperman's deft writing, Winter Work left me spellbound and hungry for another pass at his older books to relive these intense adventures -- Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fesperman nicely works historical figures such as Markus Wolf, "the Stasi's most renowned spymaster", into the complex plot while painting an evocative portrait of East Berlin, "spying's most storied theme park." The action builds to a deeply satisfying denouement. Cold War-era spy fiction doesn't get much better than this * Publishers Weekly * [In] a recent clutch of novels set in this period. Winter Work [...] is unquestionably the pick of the bunch * The Times * An intelligent, atmospheric spy story perfectly conjuring up the final bad old days of the Cold War * Shots Mag * A fascinating tale which opens a window on one aspect of history that few other spy writers have looked at in depth * Crime Time Review * Classic spy fiction * Sun * Fesperman creates an atmosphere of shadowy menace * Financial Times *

Dan Fesperman, a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, is an award-winning author whose thrillers have won the John Creasey and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers as well as the Hammett Prize. His plots are 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. Follow Dan at www.danfesperman.com