OL17871877W Page_number_confidence 95.38 Pages 586 Ppi 300 Printer DYMO_LabelWriter_450_Turbo Republisher_date 20180524121536 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1005 Scandate 20180518081720 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Source Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2015Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:10:05 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1218209 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set china External-identifier But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Survival? Murder? Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. Worse, he discovers his real assignment - to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. 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 the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts.
Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture.
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