The CIA initially got a hold of a directory with home phone numbers of some of these

Stasi foreign intelligence people and they started cold calling them like salesmen.

What happened to the world of espionage after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Dan Fesperman is here to talk about his latest thriller Winter Work.

You see my life on paper, you think, oh, something that's growing up in a soup kitchen and

an unhoused shelter, those must have been the tough years, but those were actually the

best years of my life.

Isaac Fitzgerald discusses his new memoir, Dirtbag Massachusetts.

Plus, Liz Harris has news from the publishing world and Dwight Garner and Molly Young will

talk about books they've recently reviewed.

This is the Book Review Podcast.

It's July 29th.

I'm John Williams.

Dan Fesperman is the author of many acclaimed thrillers set all around the world.

His latest, his 13th is Winter Work and he's here to talk about it.

Dan, nice to have you here.

Thanks.

Great to be here.

So, this is a thriller and so we will not dampen any of the thrills by giving away too much,

but let's talk about the basic setup of the story.

Where do we start the book?

We began just a few months after the Berlin Wall has come down.

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