Safe Houses -- Dan Fesperman

West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of the most ruthless and dangerous man at the agency. <p/> What she has witnessed will have repercussions that reach across decades and continents into the present day, when, in a farm town in Maryland, a young man is arrested for the double murder of his parents, and his sister takes it upon herself to find out why he did it.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Dan Fesperman<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage Crime/Black Lizard<br><b>Published:</b> 06/18/2019<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.65lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780525436003<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>DAN FESPERMAN's travels as a journalist and novelist have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. <i>Lie in the Dark</i> won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, <i>The Small Boat of Great Sorrows</i> won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and <i>The Prisoner of Guantánamo</i> won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the