Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. Worse, he discovers his real assignment - to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. 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 the politics of his youth have now put him in the cross-hairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors.Īlex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. 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. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. A sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.īerlin, 1948.
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