# The Letter Writer - Paperback

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by **Dan Fesperman** (Author)

**From the acclaimed author of _Winter Work_ comes a gripping novel about a disgraced New York City cop in 1942 whose latest investigation will thrust him into a citywide web of possibly traitorous corruption from which he may not get out alive.**

"Addictive, fast-paced, and thrilling." --_San Francisco Book Review_  
  
February 9, 1942. Southern cop Woodrow Cain arrives in New York City for a new position with the NYPD and is greeted with smoke billowing out from the SS Normandie, engulfed in flames on the Hudson. On Cain's first day on the job, a body turns up in the same river. Unfamiliar with the milieu of mob bosses and crooked officials in the big city, Cain's investigation stalls, until a strange man who calls himself Danziger enters his life. Danziger looks like a miscreant, but speaks five languages, has the manners of a gentleman, and is the one person who can help Cain identify the body. A letter writer for illiterate European immigrants, Danzinger has a seemingly boundless knowledge of the city's denizens and networks--and possesses information that extends beyond the reach of his clients, hinting at an unfathomable past. As the body count grows, Cain and Danziger inch closer toward an underground web of possibly traitorous corruption...but in these murky depths, not even Danzinger can know what kind of danger will await them.

### Author Biography

**DAN FESPERMAN**'s travels as a journalist and novelist have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. _Lie in the Dark_ won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, _The Small Boat of Great Sorrows_ won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and _The Prisoner of Guantánamo_ won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Baltimore.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 7.8 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** March 21, 2017

## Details

- **Price:** 25.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Historical, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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