is a reporter for the Baltimore Sun and worked in its Berlin bureau during the years of civil war in former Yugoslavia, as well as in Afghanistan during the recent conflict for the paper. His first novel, Lie in the Dark, won the CWA John Creasey award for best first crime novel in 1999 and his second novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows, won the 2003 CWA Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year. His new novel, The Warlord's Son is published by Bantam Press.
'Dan Fesperman has written that rare thing: a fine and intelligent novel that makes you think, and keeps you turning the pages' -- Val McDermid 'Thoroughly recommended...Has the tang of someone writing with conviction, compassion and, above all, an understanding of the Balkans' * Observer * 'Hugely satisfying. This book has all the power of a great thriller, with the humanity and intelligence of the best serious fiction' -- Fergal Keane 'Gruelling, exciting, eventful...cleanly and crisply written, with a vein of sardonic asides' * Literary Review *