Plan D
By: Simon Urban ; translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
Contributors: Derbyshire, Katy
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780099578352
Subjects: Murder; International relations; Investigation; Police; Relations; Fiction
Work titles: Plan D.
Description: October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR's chairman is found murdered - and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi. Detective Martin Wegener is assigned to the case, but, with the future of East Germany hanging over him, Wegener must work with the West German police if he is to find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. It is a journey that will take him from Stasi meeting rooms to secret prisons as he begins to unravel the identity of both victim and killer, and the meaning of the mysterious Plan D.
Notes: Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2013.