Revere Falk - FBI veteran, Arabic speaker - is an interrogator at "Gitmo," assigned to a "hold-out," a Yemeni prisoner who may have valuable information about al Qaeda. But these duties are temporarily suspended when the body of an American soldier is found washed ashore in Cuban territory. No American has ever turned up dead on the wrong side of the fence before.
Suddenly, Cold War tension is back and Falk finds himself at the heart of it when he's put in charge of the investigation into the death. Almost immediately he senses an unusual level of interest in the proceedings: from his commander, from the Cubans, and from the various factions of the military. And when the Defense Intelligence Agency unexpectedly sends its own team to "reinforce" the investigation, Falk understands that there is much more at stake than anybody is willing to say.
Now, he is drawn into a game of evasion and pursuit, a game whose stakes spike dangerously when a figure from his past reappears - someone who knows secrets about him that he had hoped were buried forever.
It's hard to know if the suspects held in the cells at Guantanamo, Cuba, are members of terrorist cells, or innocents swept up in the post 9/11 frenzy. In his story Dan Fesperman sneaks us inside for a peek behind the walls. When a "Gitmo" soldier drowns miles from where he should be, the question is who's responsible--a terrorist, the Cubans, American spies, or a jealous husband? Listeners will be riveted. Narrator David Colacci can get hearts racing or lull them into a deceiving calm. He delivers a respectable Cuban in one sentence and a New England lobsterman in the next, never leaving the listener at a loss. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
About the Author
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.
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