The Good German
This compelling thriller is both a touching love story and a masterful  portrayal of the struggle for geopolitical control of postwar Germany. Network  correspondent Jake Geismar, who covered Berlin before the war, has returned to  the devastated city, ostensibly to cover the Potsdam Conference but actually to  find the woman he loves. Miraculously, Lena Brandt, Jake's wartime mistress, has  survived. However, her mathematician husband is missing, and both the American  and Russian intelligence services are hunting him. When the bullet-ridden body  of an American soldier washes up on the shores of Potsdam in front of Jake's  eyes just as Truman, Churchill, and Stalin convene the first postwar conference,  Jake is plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue, corruption, and betrayal.A brilliantly evoked portrait of a unique moment in history (the end of one war  and the beginning of another),The Good Germanamply fulfills the promise  shown by Joseph Kanon in his two earlier novels,Los AlamosandThe Prodigal Spy.--Jane  Adams--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.