Leaving Berlin
By: Joseph Kanon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781471137822; 9781471137051; 9781471137068; 9781471137075
Subjects: Americans Germany Fiction; United States Social life and customs Fiction; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 Fiction; Authors Fiction; Fiction; Racism Fiction; Suspense; Historical fiction; Spies Fiction; Kriminalroman; Amerikanisches Englisch; Anti-semitism Fiction; United States. Central Intelligence Agency History Fiction
Description: Berlin 1948. 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 assignment - 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? Betrayal? Survival? Murder?