The moment
Subtitle: a novel
By: Douglas Kennedy
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9781439180792; 9781439180808
Subjects: Cold War; Americans; Travel writers; Foreign agents; History; Fiction
Description: Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker for Radio Liberty, Thomas meets his soul mate, Petra Dussmann, a translator with an iron curtain around her heart. Petra's mysterious melancholy proves irresistible, and as Thomas is drawn into a passionate affair, he also becomes entangled in spy games played by the Stasi and the CIA.