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Knopf
September 2012
On Sale: August 21, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 0307700135
EAN: 9780307700131
Kindle: B007IM0Z80
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Fiction Family Life
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.
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