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Copyright © 2018 by Dan Fesperman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fesperman, Dan, [date].

Title: Safe houses : a novel / Dan Fesperman.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017058898| ISBN 9780525520191 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525520207 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | Conspiracies—Fiction. | Cold War—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. | FICTION / Suspense. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Spy stories.

Classification: LCC PS3556.E778 S24 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2017058898

Ebook ISBN 9780525520207

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

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