Los Angeles Times
“This is a thriller in the best tradition by an author who knows the Middle East like the back of his hand”
BBC News
“The plotting is beautiful.”
Library Journal (Starred Review)
“The unfolding of the plot within a plot are handled … with skill and a sure sense of the dramatic.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“It’s suspense all the way through.”
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At the age of 21, Howard Kaplan was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm to London.
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Back in the USSR: I was an American college kid turned manuscript smuggler
That time I went to Moscow and all I got was some illicit microfiche to bring to the West
DAMASCUS COVER Scoops Four Awards at Manchester Film Festival
Chapter 35: The Damascus Cover, Bob Schieffer + Eleanor Henderson
“Damascus Cover” cleaned up at the Boston Film Festival: we speak with Howard Kaplan whose 40 year-old thriller inspired the movie.
Howard Kaplan talks about Damascus, and the new film of his book ‘The Damascus Cover’
#TalkingLocationWith…. author Howard Kaplan talks about Damascus, the setting for his thriller, The Damascus Cover, set in 1970’s DAMASCUS, and film adaptation set in 1989, starring Johnathan Rhys-Myers, Jürgen Prochnow and Sir John Hurt. Click here to read the...