The Prisoner of Guantanamo

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		The Prisoner of Guantanamo
		The Prisoner of Guantanamo

基本信息·出版社：Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.
·页码：512 页
·出版日期：2007年07月
·ISBN：0340896825
·条形码：9780340896822
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：关塔那摩囚徒

内容简介 Revere Falk is an FBI interrogator who believes it is possible to get more from a terrorist suspect by treating him decently than by using more 'robust' methods. He lives his life by a certain code of honour.
作者简介 Dan Fesperman, a war correspondent for the Baltimore Sun Times, has written three highly acclaimed previous novels of international suspense. He now lives in Baltimore with his family.
编辑推荐 Review
'A highly topical and intelligent thriller from the acclaimed author of The Small Boat of Great Sorrows". -- The mystery and thriller book club 'Masterful...Here is the human cost of the war on terror, subtly delineated' -- Economist 20060812 'I've always been a big fan of Dan Fesperman's intelligent novels and The Prisoner of Guantanamo is up to his usual standard ... fascinating ... a thought-provoking and exciting read' -- Observer 20060716 'Nothing can beat the Guantanamo prison camp for claustrophobic atmosphere ... An absorbing novel with some provocative commentary on America's war on terror' -- Susannah Yager, Sunday Telegraph 20060723 'Masterful...Here is the human cost of the war on terror, subtly delineated' -- Economist 20060812 'A powerful thriller' -- Guardian 20060729 'Convincing' -- Mirror 20060811 'Asuperb spy thriller worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carre and Ken Follett...darkly imaginative...draws a dramatic portrait' -- USA Today 20060712 'A neat sense of conspiratorial tension...Fesperman's use of spy tradecraft is good - even creative - and never more elaborate than the situation calls for' -- Washington Post 20060716 'One of the best writers of intelligent thrillers based on contemporary events working today...observant, thoughtful, witty' -- Baltimore Sun 20060716 'Fesperman taps another timely issue in his fourth topical thriller...a superb job' -- Publishers Weekly 20060501 '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 20060501 '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 20060501 'Fesperman offers a level of cultural and political nuance not always found in adventure thrillers.' -- Booklist on THE WARLORD'S SON 20060501 '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 20060501 '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 20060501 '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 20060501 'One of the best writers of intelligent thrillers based on contemporary events working today...what makes the novel work is the attention to detail...but he's even better at creating the emotional atmosphere, the tedium and the tension, the paranoia and the boredom...observant, thoughtful, witty' -- Baltimore Sun 20060716 'An intelligent thriller of some weight' -- Bookseller 20070323

Review
'I've always been a big fan of Dan Fesperman's intelligent novels and The Prisoner of Guantanamo is up to his usual standard ... fascinating ... a thought-provoking and exciting read' (Observer 20060716)

'Nothing can beat the Guantanamo prison camp for claustrophobic atmosphere ... An absorbing novel with some provocative commentary on America's war on terror' (Susannah Yager, Sunday Telegraph 20060501)

'Masterful...Here is the human cost of the war on terror, subtly delineated' (Economist 20060501)

'A powerful thriller' (Guardian 20060501)

'Convincing' (Mirror 20060501)

'A superb spy thriller worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett...darkly imaginative...draws a dramatic portrait' (USA Today 20060501)

'A neat sense of conspiratorial tension...Fesperman's use of spy tradecraft is good - even creative - and never more elaborate than the situation calls for' (Washington Post 20060501)

'One of the best writers of intelligent thrillers based on contemporary events working today...observant, thoughtful, witty' (Baltimore Sun 20060501)

'Fesperman taps another timely issue in his fourth topical thriller...a superb job' (Publishers Weekly 20060716)

'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 20070323)

'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 )

'One of the best writers of intelligent thrillers based on contemporary events working today...what makes the novel work is the attention to detail...but he's even better at creating the emotional atmosphere, the tedium and the tension, the paranoia and the boredom...observant, thoughtful, witty' (Baltimore Sun )

'An intelligent thriller of some weight'

(Bookseller )

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