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A new book by Dan Fesperman is becoming a major literary event . . . an utterly compelling thriller and quite simply the best I've read all year. (Sunday Telegraph on THE WARLORD'S SON)

A terrific novel of intrigue, duplicity and death in the shadow of the Khyber Pass . . . Fesperman is that rare journalist who is also a gifted novelist . . . THE WARLORD'S SON deserves the attention of anyone who is open to first-rate fiction about war, journalism and the dark, dangerous worlds called Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Washington Post on THE WARLORD'S SON)

Fesperman offers a level of cultural and political nuance not always found in adventure thrillers. (Booklist on THE WARLORD'S SON)

A first-rate geopolitical yarn . . . Fesperman combines his strong eye for detail with bleak film-noir cynicism, managing to make plot twists that could have felt contrived seem depressingly believable. (Entertainment Weekly on THE WARLORD'S SON)

Dan Fesperman has written that rare thing: a fine and intelligent novel that makes you think, and keeps you turning the pages. (Val McDermid on THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS)

In THE WARLORD'S SON, Dan Fesperman, an American foreign correspondent who covered the war in Afghanistan, succeeds in writing a convincing, accurate thriller . . . This book is worth reading if only for the passage where the hero, Skelly, glimpses Osama bin Laden at a public hanging; the scene both convinces and frightens. (The Economist on THE WARLORD'S SON)

A superbly written, topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS and THE WARLORD'S SON