The Double Game Pdf Summary
A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a Foreign Service brat who grew up in the very cities where Lemaster’s books were set, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career in journalism.
More than two decades later, Cage, now a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper into Lemaster’s pronouncement. Spiked with cryptic references to some of Cage’s favorite spy novels, the note is the first of many literary bread crumbs that lead him back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, each instruction drawing him closer to the complex truth, each giving rise to more questions: Why is beautiful Litzi Strauss back in his life after thirty years? How much of his father’s job involved the CIA? As the events of Lemaster’s past eerily—and dangerously—begin intersecting with those of Cage’s own, a “long stalemate of secrecy” may finally be coming to an end.
A story about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, duplicity and loyalty, The Double Game ingeniously taps the espionage classics of the Cold War to build a spellbinding maze of intrigue. It is Dan Fesperman’s most audacious, suspenseful, and satisfying novel yet.
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The Double Game Review
4.0 out of 5 stars Very entertaining book but with anodyne characters
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 9, 2012
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This book is great fun if you are a fan of books of the golden age
of spy novels, extending roughly from Eric ambler through the end
the cold war.
This pastiche through quotes, characters and style uses the
“tradecraft” and techniques of these books to guide our hero through
today’s Europe on an entertaining chase.
When the plot brings back old techniques from masters of spy
literature you are engulfed in nostalgia for the classic books you
read years ago when they were a best sellers. The style also
captures the era, and subtle reuses of literary devices make you
remember and chuckle.
As he describes the events, characters, and procedures of the books
the “handler” uses to manipulate our hero it also becomes book
length review of the classics of the genre, as well as a list of 222
such books in the most useful appendix. It has provided me
with a list of books I want to read or re-read from that era, I
hope they are still around at Amazon and have been “Kindlized”.
Readers, be sure and check the wonderful Edwin Lemaster books
on Amazon.
So, why not 5 stars? Only 4 because the lead characters, father,
son, girl-friend and villain are all pretty anodyne and hard to
care much about. Unlike, say Le Carre’s Smiley, who I continue to
empathize with 30 some years after he “retired”.
4.0 out of 5 stars Meta-espionage in Eastern Europe
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2012
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This book was written for people who miss the competition between Max and the Sandman. It is a good read, but every page alludes to Burgess, McLean, Philby, Blunt, Greene, LeCarre, McCarry, Deighton, and others. If those names resonate for you, this novel will be fun. If you have never heard those names, this novel will leave you very confused about what was real and what was fiction during the Cold War. There is enough real danger, however, from a surprisingly plausible contemporary threat to keep the suspense level high.
4.0 out of 5 stars Spy fiction aficionado is forced to play the game
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2020
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If nothing else, this is an entertaining reference to 20th century spy fiction. The story told will keep you guessing as to who is what and why.
About Dan Fesperman Author Of The Double Game pdf Book
Dan Fesperman’s Author Of The Double Game pdf Book, travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantánamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.
The Double Game pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Knopf; 1st Edition (August 21, 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0307700135
- ISBN-13 : 978-0307700131
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.75 x 1.5 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,607,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,246 in Historical Thrillers (Books)
- #9,593 in Mystery Action & Adventure
- #16,762 in Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction
- Customer Reviews: 4.0 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
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