{"product_id":"safe-houses-9780525436003","title":"Safe Houses","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \"one of the great espionage novels of our time\" (#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Lee Child), a young woman goes on the run after discovering a dark truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin, only to be murdered years later. Now her daughter is determined to uncover the truth. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWest 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 she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities. 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 dangerous man at the agency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What she has witnessed will have 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDAN FESPERMAN's travels as a journalist and novelist have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. \u003ci\u003eLie in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Small Boat of Great Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and \u003ci\u003eThe Prisoner of Guantánamo\u003c\/i\u003e won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50325166653714,"sku":"9780525436003","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_414db624-21a6-4e36-8e7a-62febbade22b.jpg?v=1727682286","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/safe-houses-9780525436003","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}