Prisoner of Guantanamo

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Prisoner of Guantanamo
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dan Fesperman
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 25,Width 151
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
Thriller/suspense
Adventure
ISBN/Barcode 9780340896815
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publication Date 29 June 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Revere Falk is an FBI interrogator who believes it is possible to get more from a terrorist suspect by treating him decently than by using more 'robust' methods. He lives his life by a certain code of honour. This puts him in a minority at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So when the body of a US soldier is found under mysterious circumstances on the beach, and a high-ranking investigative team is flown in, Falk should be above suspicion. But Falk has a secret, a secret he had hoped was dead and buried. Now, it is reaching out from his past, to the sodium-lit cell blocks and stifling humidity of this claustrophobic rumour-mill of a community, and its implications are greater than he could ever have imagined. Dan Fesperman is already the winner of the CWA John Creasey and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger awards. This, his fourth book, will surely be hailed as his best yet.

Author Biography

Dan Fesperman, a war correspondent for the Baltimore Sun Times, has written three highly acclaimed previous novels of international suspense. He now lives in Baltimore with his family.

Reviews

A new book by Dan Fesperman is becoming a major literary event . . . an utterly compelling thriller and quite simply the best I ve read all year. - Sunday Telegraph on THE WARLORD'S SON A terrific novel of intrigue, duplicity and death in the shadow of the Khyber Pass . . . Fesperman is that rare journalist who is also a gifted novelist . . . THE WARLORD'S SON deserves the attention of anyone who is open to first-rate fiction about war, journalism and the dark, dangerous worlds called Pakistan and Afghanistan. - Washington Post on THE WARLORD'S SON Fesperman offers a level of cultural and political nuance not always found in adventure thrillers. - Booklist on THE WARLORD'S SON A first-rate geopolitical yarn . . . Fesperman combines his strong eye for detail with bleak film-noir cynicism, managing to make plot twists that could have felt contrived seem depressingly believable. - Entertainment Weekly on THE WARLORD'S SON Dan Fesperman has written that rare thing: a fine and intelligent novel that makes you think, and keeps you turning the pages. - Val McDermid on THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS In THE WARLORD'S SON, Dan Fesperman, an American foreign correspondent who covered the war in Afghanistan, succeeds in writing a convincing, accurate thriller . . . This book is worth reading if only for the passage where the hero, Skelly, glimpse