Dan Fesperman

Dan Fesperman (born September 15, 1955, in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a former reporter for The Baltimore Sun and the author of several thrillers. The plots were inspired by the author's own international assignments in Germany, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East. He is a 1977 graduate of the University of North Carolina and lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife Liz Bowie, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, and their two children.

List of works Lie in the Dark, No Exit Press, 1999, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, Black Swan, 2003, The Warlord's Son, Black Swan, 2004, The Prisoner of Guantanamo, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006, The Amateur Spy, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007, The Arms Maker of Berlin, Hodder & Stoughton, 2009, Layover in Dubai, Knopf, 2010, The Double Game, Knopf, 2012, Unmanned, Knopf, 2014, The Letter Writer, Knopf, 2016, Safe Houses, Knopf, 2018, The Cover Wife, Knopf, 2021, Winter Work, Knopf, 2022, Pariah: A Novel, Knopf, 2025,

Awards 1999 The John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first novel, for Lie in the Dark 2003 The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller, for The Small Boat of Great Sorrows 2006 The Hammett Prize, for The Prisoner of Guantánamo