Deep Cover: The Copper Scroll

by Richard Fliegel

Deep the Copper Scroll is a spy thriller set in Israel and Iran, in the tradition of John le Carre. An American writer and his Palestinian bride are taken prisoner in Tehran, accused of espionage. Their interrogator, a Captain in the Revolutionary Guard, has good reason to suspect that they have not come to research a book on the Persian tyrant Cyrus the Great. As the Captain tries to break their cover story, we learn how they came together in Israel and their true purpose in Iran.

230 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2014

About the author

Richard Fliegel grew up in the Bronx, in Soundview, Pelham Parkway, Allerton Avenue and Bronx Park East. He went to Bronx Science, and when he didn't he went to the Botanical Gardens. At Buffalo he studied poetry with Robert Creeley and soap opera with Leslie Fiedler. He moved to Bank Street, West 75th, Washington Heights, and woke up one morning in Santa Monica -- when he flew back to read his play, The Judgment of Shika Levi, at the 92nd Street Y. He earned his Ph.D. with W. Ross Winterowd at USC, wrote a bit for TV, and set some books back in the Bronx. The NY Times reviewed one, Liz Smith quoted another, and he kept writing one after another. By daylight he can be found at USC Dornsife, directing programs, creating curriculum, researching critical thinking, doing a little teaching, and writing. Still writing.