DAN FESPERMAN ’s travels as a writer 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 the association’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller; and The Prisoner of Guantánamo won North America’s Dashiell Hammett Award.