Dan Festerman: Cold War Retrospective

The Double Game Knopf Dept: Baltimore's Dan Festerman has stirred up some first-rate post-9/11 spy intrigue in previous outings, but The Double Game Knopf, 368 pages, $32 is a tasty secrets-never-die Cold War retrospective with a wheels-within-wheels contemporary twist, according to Winnipeg Free Press. -- -- -- Dan Festerman BALTIMORE SUN Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image An ex-journo is enticed by an unknown handler into pursuing the truth about an aging spy novelist and former CIA boss who may have been a double agent. The hook: the perilous bread-crumb trail across Eastern Europe is rife with classic spy-book clues. It's not often that a genre novel is truly novel, but this one is. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.