Double Game

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The Double Game is not just a spy novel
- its a love letter to the genre...cleverly woven into a thrilling story. Brilliantly executed & a joy from start to finish. -Olen Steinhauer author of An American Spy A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to young journalist Bill Cage that hed once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage a fan who grew up as a Foreign Service brat in the very cities where Lemaster set his plots the story creates a brief but embarrassing sensation. More than two decades later Cage by then a lonely disillusioned PR man receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. Spiked with cryptic references to some of his & his fathers favorite old spy novels the note is the first of many literary bread crumbs that soon lead him back to Vienna Prague & Budapest in search of the truth even as the events of Lemasters past eerily--and dangerously--begin intersecting with those of his own. Why is beautiful Litzi Strauss back in his life after 30 years? How much of his fathers job involved the CIA? Did Bill as a child become a pawn? As the suspense steadily increases a long stalemate of secrecy may finally be broken.