DAN FESPERMAN’s travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantánamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.
“Fast-paced. . . . Fascinating. . . . Fesperman leads us on a
lively chase.” —The Washington Post
“A frantic tale of cold murder, cunning double-crosses, and
narrow escapes. . . We plow our way through sharp scenes of
brilliant resourcefulness in the face of a towering
conspiracy.”—NPR
“[Fesperman] has a nose for powder-keg settings that offer social
and political insights as well as vicarious thrills.” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch
“Entertaining. . . . Continues the string of fine work by
Fesperman.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A suspenseful, page-turning thriller . . . An exciting,
labyrinthine yarn of conspirators and assassins, chases, escapes,
near misses, plots within plots, and Dubai lore.”—The Providence
Journal
“Fesperman sharpens his storytelling acumen to cut through various
global issues in his latest thriller . . . Dubai proves to be an
ideal spot for excess, intrigue, and nefarious corporate
shenanigans.”—Baltimore Magazine
“Fascinating. . . . All of Fesperman’s strengths are on display in
his latest. . . . Anyone looking for more than just an a la carte
thriller will find Layover in Dubai to be a soup to nuts reading
experience indeed.”—Daily Bulldog (Franklin County, Maine)
“Fesperman makes Dubai his book’s finest character. Fabulous wealth
and opulence grind like tectonic plates against traditional Muslim
culture. . . . Layover in Dubai has plenty of action, but it’s
Fesperman’s portrait of a truly bizarre place that will captivate
readers.”—Booklist
“A stellar suspense mystery that sizzles in the hot desert
sun.”—Las Vegas Review-Journal
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