01879cam a2200361 i 4500 613866528 TxAuBib 20180803120000.0 180109s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017058898 9780525520191 hardcover 0525520198 hardcover (OCoLC)1006309689 TxAuBib rda Fesperman, Dan, 1955-, author. Safe houses : a novel / Dan Fesperman. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 401 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of the most ruthless and dangerous man at the agency. What she has witnessed will have repercussions that reach across decades and continents into the present day, when, in a farm town in Maryland, a young man is arrested for the double murder of his parents, and his sister takes it upon herself to find out why he did it. Provided by publisher. HL800L Lexile. 20180803. United States Central Intelligence Agency Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Cold War Fiction. Spy stories. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction.