Leaving Berlin: A Novel

Leaving Berlin: A Novel

The acclaimed author of The Good German â€œdeftly captures the ambienceâ€ (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his â€œthought-provoking, pulse-poundingâ€ (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestsellerâ€”a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.

Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the warâ€™s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors.

Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignmentâ€”to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? At betrayal? Survival? Murder? Joseph Kanonâ€™s compelling thriller is a love story that brilliantly brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.
Country USA
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781476704647
ReleaseDate 2015-03-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476704647

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781476704647
ReleaseDate	2015-03-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476704647

Leaving Berlin: A Novel

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