Spies lurk in Berlin in 'Winter Work'
The novel focuses on the last days of the Cold War
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The novel focuses on the last days of the Cold War
This season, classical musician Brendan Slocumb debuts with 'The Violin Conspiracy', about a Black violinist and a stolen violin. Other notable books dealing with racial issues include Greg Iles’s 'Southern Man' and Daniel’s Nieh’s 'Take No Names'.
Dan Fesperman’s new espionage novel, The Cover Wife, could have been a simplistic experiment in dramatics, maybe even a bit soapy. It follows CIA agent Claire Saylor as she goes undercover as the wife of an academic in Hamburg, Germany, while a parallel plotline follows Mahmoud, a young Moroccan immigrant who’s being slowly sucked in by a radical group of men at his mosque. But Fesperman, a former journalist who covered both the Yugoslav civil wars and the Middle East in the wake of 9/11, roots Claire’s and Mahmoud’s stories firmly in reality. In this essay, he reveals why an indivi...