Dan Fesperman Books in Order

After a viral scandal ends his career in Congress, former comedian Hal Knight retreats to the island of Vieques to lick his wounds. When CIA handlers recruit him to use his old fame to befriend the autocratic leader of a small Eastern European nation, he stumbles into a high risk mix of palace intrigue, propaganda and personal redemption.

Former Stasi colonel Emil Grimm finds his neighbor dead in the woods outside Berlin just after the fall of the Wall and suspects murder, not suicide. Trying to trade secrets for safety, he teams up uneasily with CIA officer Claire Saylor while competing hunters close in.

When CIA agent Claire Saylor is sent to Hamburg to pose as the wife of an academic whose provocative reading of scripture angers extremists, she assumes the assignment is punishment. As she shadows her supposed husband and a rising terror cell, she uncovers a mission far more dangerous than advertised.

In 1979 Berlin, CIA staffer Helen Abell manages a web of safe houses until she overhears a secret meeting and stops a violent assault that puts her in a predator's sights. Decades later her daughter, convinced the family massacre was not what it seems, digs into her mother's hidden past.

In 1942, disgraced North Carolina detective Woodrow Cain arrives in New York expecting a fresh start and instead catches a murder case tied to the burning of the ocean liner Normandie. With help from enigmatic letter writer Danziger, he follows clues into Little Germany, city hall backrooms and the early war effort.

Once a confident F-16 pilot, Darwin Cole now lives alone in the Nevada desert, haunted by a drone strike that killed a child. When three journalists ask him to help expose the shadowy operator who directed that mission, their investigation leads straight into the murky world of modern surveillance and private contractors.

Bill Cage, a onetime journalist turned weary public relations man, receives a cryptic note hinting that legendary spy novelist Edwin Lemaster hid more than he admitted in an old interview. Following literary clues through Vienna, Prague and Budapest, Bill uncovers buried Cold War secrets that entangle his family as well as his hero.

Corporate auditor Sam Keller flies to Dubai to babysit a reckless colleague and enjoy a brief taste of luxury. When that colleague is murdered after a night out, Sam becomes the prime suspect and must rely on an unorthodox local detective to navigate corrupt cops, mobsters and his own untrustworthy employers.

A quiet American historian of German resistance work sees his life upended when his estranged mentor is arrested with stolen Second World War intelligence files. Sent to Europe to recover what is missing, he follows cryptic clues into the wartime past of an aging arms baron whose secrets still have lethal value.

Retired aid worker Freeman Lockhart has barely settled with his wife on a Greek island when intruders force him to spy on an old Palestinian friend in Jordan or see a buried secret exposed. In Washington, Aliyah Rahim fears her grieving husband is planning a devastating attack, and their paths collide as the clock runs down.

FBI agent and Arabic speaker Revere Falk works as an interrogator at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay until a soldier's body washes up on the Cuban side of the fence. Reassigned to the sensitive death investigation, he is caught between rival agencies, Cuban officials and a figure from his own past.

Burned out after years on small domestic stories, American reporter Skelly jumps at a last chance to cover the war on terror from Pakistan. With the help of Najeeb, a fixer and estranged warlord's son, he ventures toward Afghanistan, where professional ambition, divided loyalties and family honor collide.

Former Sarajevo detective Vlado Petric now labors on Berlin building sites, trying to forget the war he escaped. Recruited by an investigator from the International War Crimes Tribunal to help capture a Croatian war criminal turned profiteer, he is used as bait and forced to confront painful truths about his own family history.

Homicide investigator Vlado Petric stays behind in besieged Sarajevo when his family flees, numb to the daily toll of shells and sniper fire. The close range killing of a senior police official finally pulls him into a case that exposes black market profiteers and wartime corruption on a far wider scale.