Voices Under Berlin
Subtitle: The Tale of a Monterey Mary
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publis
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Trade paper
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781434839732
Subjects: Fiction / Espionage; Cold War -- Fiction; Espionage  | Spies
Genres: Spy Novel
First sentence: Rain is the thing that you always remember about Berlin. It was raining on the twenty-second of July 1954, the day Kevin got there, and it was raining the day he left, three years later to the day.
Description: Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary is a novel about one of the early skirmishes of the Cold War told with a pace and a black humor reminiscent of that used by Joseph Heller (Catch-22) and Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H*). It is set against the backdrop of Operation GOLD (PBJOINTLY), the CIA cross-sector spy tunnel operation in Berlin in the mid-1950s.
      The yarn is told from both ends of the tunnel. One end is the story of the "tunnel rats," the American soldiers who man the operation. It tells of their fight for a sense of purpose against boredom and the enemy both within and without.
Winner of six book awards.
Notes: One of the rarest forms of espionage fiction: a SIGINT novel.

The Military Writers Society of American "Book of the Month" for September 2009.

2009 Branson "Stars & Flags Book Award" winner in the Thriller/Adventure Fiction category.

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PODBRAM annual book awards for 2009: Best Historical Concept

Hollywood Book Festival Award Winner 2008