'Leaving Berlin is hauntingly and beautifully written. 'An unforgettable picture of a city wrecked by defeat and betrayal. Espionage, like the black market, is still a way of life. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, Alex 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.īut almost from the start things go fatally wrong. Now, the politics of his youth have left him embroiled in the McCarthy witch-hunts. Alex Meier is a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis for America before the war. * Don't miss THE ACCOMPLICE, the next heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel from 'master of the genre' (The Washington Post), Joseph Kanon *īerlin is still in ruins almost four years after the war, caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. He is the master of the shadows of the era' The Timesįrom the author of The Good German (made into a film starring George Clooney), Leaving Berlin is a sweeping post-war story and an international bestseller.īerlin is still in ruins almost four y. * Don't miss THE ACCOMPLICE, the next heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel from 'master of the genre' (The Washington Post), Joseph Kanon *
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