By Dan Fesperman
A few years prior to the autumn of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster published to up-and-coming journalist invoice Cage that he’d as soon as thought of spying for the enemy. For Cage, a overseas provider brat who grew up within the very towns the place Lemaster’s books have been set, the scoop tale created a short yet embarrassing sensation and heralded the start of the top of his profession in journalism.
greater than 20 years later, Cage, now a lonely, upset PR guy, gets an nameless observe hinting that he must have dug deeper into Lemaster’s pronouncement. Spiked with cryptic references to a couple of Cage’s favourite secret agent novels, the be aware is the 1st of many literary bread crumbs that lead him again to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, every one guideline drawing him in the direction of the advanced fact, each one giving upward push to extra questions: Why is gorgeous Litzi Strauss again in his existence after thirty years? How a lot of his father’s activity concerned the CIA? because the occasions of Lemaster’s previous eerily—and dangerously—begin intersecting with these of Cage’s personal, a “long stalemate of secrecy” may well ultimately be coming to an finish.
a narrative approximately spies and their secrets and techniques, fathers and sons, fanatics and destiny, duplicity and loyalty, The Double Game ingeniously faucets the espionage classics of the chilly warfare to construct a spellbinding maze of intrigue. it truly is Dan Fesperman’s such a lot audacious, suspenseful, and pleasurable novel yet.
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It’s to your safeguard. regularly has been. right here you cross stirring up previous coals, attempting to begin a fireplace when you've got no concept who’d get burned, similar to you stirred issues up again in eighty-four with that tale on Ed, and glance the place that led. Do you're thinking that he was once the one one whose profession used to be broken? ” “Did whatever occur to you? ” “I’m conversing approximately you! Do you actually think you’d be slaving for these bootlicks at Ealing Wharton for those who hadn’t set yes forces in movement? ” by no means earlier than had he spoken so harshly approximately my task. It stung, even if I shared his opinion. i need to have reacted as though I’d taken a punch, simply because he speedy moved to make amends. “I’m sorry. That used to be uncalled for. i do know you’re no longer there via selection. Alimony, baby help, it couldn’t were effortless. ” He checked out his glass, as though the whisky could be in charge. “These are issues I shouldn’t be asserting. ” “What are you asserting? you recognize why my occupation ran off the rails. It had not anything to do with the Lemaster tale. ” Belgrade, that used to be why. town the place I misplaced my mother in ’59 grew to become the town the place I misplaced my occupation in ’92. It used to be the 12 months i ultimately landed a posting as a international correspondent, in simple terms to be denied a piece visa by means of the Yugoslav executive, which caused the publish to bear in mind me. quickly, they acknowledged, yet issues by no means labored out, and for me it was once the start of the top. there has been extra to it than that, of course—newsroom politics, declining budgets, a wedding already strained by means of conflicting agendas. yet within the “for wish of a nail” type of small occasions resulting in significant effects, Belgrade ’92 was once the main apt summation for why I wound up divorced and dealing in PR. pay attention the thwarted guy. he'll in general make an insufferable ass of himself. “You’re totally right,” Dad stated. “I had no enterprise going there. I express regret. ” “Well, you’re not likely to forestall me. ” “Of path I’m no longer. since you nonetheless appear to imagine this can be a few kind of crossword puzzle you could remedy at your relaxation after which toddle on domestic to write down approximately it. ” “And why can’t I? ” “Well, the Russians, for something. ” “The Russians? ” First Christoph had pointed out them, and now my dad. “Why the Russians? ” “Don’t you learn the papers anymore? examine who’s responsible. An ex-KGB guy who generates part his energy by way of telling superseded ghost tales approximately NATO and the USA. these freewheeling days while Gorbachev and that inebriated Yeltsin have been commencing all of the previous documents are long past. not more clean begin. ” “So you’re announcing the chilly conflict is again fashionable? ” i used to be joking, yet Dad didn’t crack a grin. “I’m asserting that for this crowd and all its henchmen, it by no means ended. And contemplating the ultrasensitive nature of the paintings Lemaster as soon as did—” “Mole searching, you suggest. ” “Yes. that kind of fabric keeps its shelf lifestyles for so long as the foundations live on. ” “Dad, you’re speaking approximately issues that occurred thirty, 40 years in the past. and a few of it most likely wasn’t even that vital then. ” “I as soon as felt that means, too, simply after the Wall got here down.