num_pages: 482
description:  
  Now a Major Motion Picture
 The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has returned to write about the Allied triumph while pursuing a more personal quest: his search for Lena, the married woman he left behind. When an American soldier's body is found in the Russian zone during the Potsdam Conference, Jake stumbles on the lead to a murder mystery. The Good German is a story of espionage and love, an extraordinary recreation of a city devastated by war, and a thriller that asks the most profound ethical questions in its exploration of the nature of justice, and what we mean by good and evil in times of peace and of war.
language: English
title: The Good German
titlecomplete: The Good German
characters: Lena Brandt, Jake Geismar
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, World War II, Espionage, Mystery Thriller, Historical, Germany, War, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 6673
places: Berlin
publisher: Picador