The Double Game (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

ISBN: 030774440X

Author: Fesperman, Dan

Condition: Used

From the acclaimed author of Layover in Dubai-the story of a journalists journey to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth about a spy-turned-novelists decades of dark secretsAs fiendishly clever a spy story as you could hope for. A guaranteed delight for any espionage fan. -The Seattle TimesA few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that hed 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 fathers 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 Lemasters past eerily-and dangerously-still haunt the present. As the suspense steadily increases, decades of secrets begin to unravel.