THE COVER WIFEBy Dan FespermanSpy thrillers have always had a complex relationship to history. Yet, being popular fictions — at least that’s the hope — spy stories naturally push against fact as well, rewriting history, whether as wish fulfillment or what-if, worst-case scenario. In “The Cover Wife,” Dan Fesperman charts a different, braver course, working his fiction seamlessly into the facts, writing his characters into the past and weaving his story into the warp of history’s nightmares. The result is a sharp, smart novel that hits fast and hard, its reverberations echoing after the last page is turned. In other words, he’s irresistible, and the very partner with whom Claire was entangled back in Berlin.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2021 09:00 UTC