Intrigue, spying, daring, difficult to understand at times but once you get involved, this is a book you just can't put down especially as you suspect the book has episodes that closely relate to true experiences.
This excellent spy novel is set in 1949 Berlin at the time when Germany and Berlin, in particular were divided into war zones. The Berlin airlift was providing supplies to the excluded parts of Berlin that were in the German and Russian zones. It was a time just after the finish of the war and set in the devastation. disorganization and ruins of a bombed out country.
Into this mess and confusion, comes Alex Meiers, a young Jewish writer, who fled Germany during the war but because of his youthful politics and his support of Communism, has been told he will be deported from America. He makes a deal with the CIA to win back his place in America by becoming an agent in his native Berlin. Having no choice, he agrees to do so. He appears to be welcomed by his old remaining German friends as an honored native returning writer but quickly becomes involved in a complex game where he never is sure just who his real friends are and just what he has become involved in.
A very interesting book to read and a real page-turner!!
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