Razor-Sharp Thrillers – Fiction

In Dan Fesperman’s Pariah: A Novel, Hal, a disgraced comedian-turned-politician, is recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Bolrovia, a corrupt Eastern European country. Posing as a guest of its brutal dictator, he faces his ultimate acting challenge – and what begins as espionage soon becomes a high-stakes battle of wits, with life-or-death consequences and a chance for redemption. David McCloskey’s The Persian: A Novel takes readers into the shadow war between Iran and Israel. Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for Mossad and returns to Iran. He proves skillful – but then things go terribly wrong. This is a story of vengeance, deceit, and the power of love and forgiveness in a world of lies.
Buy Pariah: A Novel – Fesperman
Buy The Persian: A Novel – McCloskey

Authors

DAN FESPERMAN served as a foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, based in Berlin. His coverage of the siege of Sarajevo led to his debut novel, Lie in the Dark, which won Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award (now known as the ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger) for best first crime novel. His subsequent books have won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers, the Barry Award for best thriller, and selection by USA Today as the year’s best mystery/thriller novel. He lives near Baltimore.

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