Safe Houses, Dan Fesperman
Safe Houses, Dan Fesperman
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Safe Houses

Author: Dan Fesperman

Narrator: Dan Fesperman

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/03/2018

Synopsis

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, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two unfamiliar people speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. 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 powerful man at the agency. Her attempts to expose the dark truths about what she has witnessed will bring about 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.

About Dan Fesperman

Dan Fesperman is a journalist and novelist whose travels have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. His book Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantanamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper

Safe Houses?!? More like DANGER HOUSES!! *ahem* It’s 1979 in West Berlin and Helen Abell is an aspiring CIA agent. However, thanks to sexism she has been relegated to managing the agency’s safe houses in the city rather than doing any field work. Determined to prove herself, Helen is going the extra m......more

Goodreads review by Katie

3.5 stars I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed this book given I don't typically read very many CIA based thrillers. Now I can't say how realistic it was but it definitely held my interest from start to finish. The action goes back and forth between 1970s Berlin with Helen Abell who oversees t......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader

Every once in a while, I love picking up a spy thriller, and Safe Houses was a great one and my first by this author. In West Berlin in the late 1970s, Helen Abell is in charge of the CIA’s safe houses, where field agents live while the Cold War carries on. One day, she’s inspecting one of the homes a......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

This is my first espionage thriller story that I’ve read. I was gripped by it but found it slightly too long and I did get confused with all the agent names and code names!! Set in 2 timelines, Berlin in 1979 where Helen looks after the safe houses. She finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong t......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

Safe Houses is an enjoyable dual timeline story that delves into the CIA’s operations in Berlin during the later years of the Cold War. In 1979, Helen Abell oversees the safe houses that the CIA maintains in Berlin. One night she accidentally overhears a strange conversation in one of the houses and......more

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