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Book Launch for Dan Fesperman: PARIAH (with I.S. Berry)

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The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio
5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21209
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Ivy is delighted to invite you to the launch of Dan Fesperman’s newest novel, Pariah, an adrenaline-fueled thriller about a disgraced comedian-turned-politician who takes on the role of a lifetime: infiltrating a corrupt Eastern European country to spy on their brutal dictator.

Fesperman’s experience as a foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun is on display in this heart-pounding thriller about espionage, entertainment, and one man’s pursuit of redemption.

We are thrilled that I.S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow, will join Fesperman in conversation.

Gather on our back patio at 7pm to enjoy a conversation and Q&A followed by a book signing. We hope you can join us!

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Click here to preorder PARIAH!

DAN FESPERMAN served as a foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, based in Berlin. His coverage of the siege of Sarajevo led to his debut novel, Lie in the Dark, which won Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel. Subsequent books have won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers, the Barry Award for best thriller, and selection by USA Today as the year’s best mystery/thriller novel. He lives near Baltimore.

I.S. BERRY spent six years as an operations officer for the CIA, serving in wartime Baghdad and elsewhere. She has lived and worked throughout Europe and the Middle East, including two years in Bahrain during the Arab Spring. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and Haverford College. Raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC, she lives in Virginia with her husband and son.

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