Dan FespermanÂs award-winning novels have transported readers to the heart of some of the worldÂs most volatile places: Yugoslavia during the Balkan Wars in Lie in the Dark and The Small Boat of Great Sorrows (ÂA new standard for war-based thrillersÂÂLos Angeles Times), and Afghanistan during the last days of the Taliban in The WarlordÂs Son (ÂA first-rate geopolitical yarnÂÂEntertainment Weekly). Now he turns his sights closer to homeÂto the secretive, overheated world of GuantánamoÂto give us a galvanizing new thriller.

Revere FalkÂFBI veteran, Arabic speakerÂis an interrogator at ÂGitmo, assigned to a Âhold-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 heÂs 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 Âreinforce the investigation, Falk understands that there is much more at play than anybody is willing to admit. He is drawn into a game of evasion and pursuit, a game whose stakes spike dangerously when a figure from his past reappearsÂsomeone who knows secrets about him that he had hoped were buried forever.

An intricately layered, blistering tale of subterfuge and deception at the highest, most hidden levels of the government, and in the most intimate, and vulnerable, moments of individual lives, The Prisoner of Guantánamo is as timely and razor sharp in its depiction of lifeÂand deathÂat Gitmo as it is unstoppably suspenseful.

Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages323 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN101400044669
• ISBN139781400044665