Leaving Berlin: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476704651 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City. Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award–winning author of Leaving Berlin, Istanbul Passage, Los Alamos, The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, Stardust, and The Good German, which was made into a major motion picture starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett.
He’s certainly in the ballpark.” (Buffalo News)“A pleasure from start to finish, blending literary finesse with action, this atmospheric historical thriller will appeal not only to Kanon’s many fans but to those who enjoy Alan Furst, Philip Kerr, and other masters of wartime and postwar espionage fiction.” (Library Journal (starred))“Another compelling, intellectually charged period piece byKanon, who works in the shadows of fear as well as anyone now w
Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. Worse, he discovers his real assignment—to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. 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. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Books 2015 * Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol abo
A fine historical spy novel Best spy novel I've read in a long time. Kanon knows the period, the politics and the traps that people fell into, their instinctive solidarity with socialism enmeshing them in the messy business of a soviet occupation. Alex Meier, a Jewish writer who fled Germany after being briefly imprisoned by the Nazis (and set free by a bribe) has been living in LA. His marriage in tatters, he has a 10 year old American son. He is forced to leave the U.S., deported and makes a secret deal with the CIA that. Jesse Kornbluth said On every page of this elegant, complex spy thriller, you feel the grey chill of 19On every page of this elegant, complex spy thriller, you feel the grey chill of 1949 Berlin. Jesse Kornbluth American media loves horse races, which is a good reason to avoid watching political pundits on cable TV. Book reviewers have resisted this reductionist way of considering writers, but in recent years I’ve seen Alan Furst and Joseph Kanon often mentioned in the same sentence. Furst is generally regarded as America’s master of the historical spy novel, but Kanon has, with each book, steadily gained ground.“Leaving Berlin” is a big book that will put Kanon even with Furst, . 9 Berlin.. American media loves horse races, which is a good reason to avoid watching political pundits on cable TV. Book reviewers have resisted this reductionist way of considering writers, but in recent years I’ve seen Alan Furst and Joseph Kanon often mentioned in the same sentence. Furst is generally regarded as America’s master of the historical spy novel, but Kanon has, with each book, steadily gained ground.“Leaving Berlin” is a big book that will put Kanon even with Furst, . He falls into a number of violent situations but somehow comes through them with great derring do The novel is set in early post WWII Berlin and the author imparts verisimilitude by citing streets and landmarks over and over. A map would have helped. The central character is a German emigré on the left who emmigrated to America and then returned to Russian controlled East Berlin and was warmly welcomed by the Russians and their German sympathisers. He falls into a number of violent situations but somehow comes through them with great derring do. It's a little hard keeping up with all