num_pages: 448
description: In this brilliant, multilayered, espionage thriller, the 2005 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award winner Henry Porter captures the tense final moments before the fall of the Berlin Wall. September 1989. The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink of collapse. Even the Stasi, one of the most formidable intelligence agencies of all time, can’t stop the rebellion that ends in the fall of the Berlin Wall. Dr. Rudi Rosenharte, formerly a Stasi foreign agent, is sent to Trieste to rendezvous with his old lover and agent, Annalise Schering, who the Stasi believe Annalise has vital intelligence. The Rudi knows she’s dead. He saw her lying in her own bloodied bathwater, and then kept her suicide a secret. As collateral for this mission, the Stasi have imprisoned Rosenharte's family. But the Stasi is not the only intelligence agency using Rosenharte. Soon the British and Americans encircle him, forcing him to choose between abandoning his beloved brother to a torturous death and returning to East Germany as a double agent. As the political pressures against the East German government rise, Rudi must face his own crises. Brandenburg Gate shows Henry Porter at the top of his game.
language: English
title: Brandenburg Gate
titlecomplete: Brandenburg Gate (Robert Harland #3)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, German Literature, Mystery Thriller, Adult Fiction, Germany, Historical Fiction, Espionage
ratings_count: 1005
places: Berlin
series: Robert Harland
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: European Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
publisher: Grove Press