Imagine a world in which the Berlin Wall never fell. A modern-day Cold War thriller: Robert Harris's "Fatherland "meets John le CarrE's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR''s chairman is found murdered -- and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi.
Detective Martin Wegener is assigned to the case, but, with...