Brandenburg Gate

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an ECO/VOM/ST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Set in East Germany during the bleak, waning days of 1989, [Brandenburg Gate] combines impeccable research with compelling characters caught up in the broad sweep of fascinating historical events.
It s easy to see why this won the Steel Dagger Award."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
i. ' eptember 1989. The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink, desperately clinging to power through the iron grip of the Stasi, one of the crudest, w most formidable intelligence services the world has ever seen. Dr. Rudi Rosenharte, former Stasi agent, now an art scholar living in Dresden, is sent to Trieste to rendezvous with his old lover, who the Stasi believe has vital intelligence. The problem: Rudi knows she's dead. He saw her lying in her own bloodied bathwater, and then kept her suicide a secret. ' .
As collateral for the mission, the Stasi have imprisoned Rudi's family. But the Stasi is not the only intelligence agency using Rudi, and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

an ECO/VOM/ST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Set in East Germany during the bleak, waning days of 1989, [Brandenburg Gate] combines impeccable research with compelling characters caught up in the broad sweep of fascinating historical events.
It s easy to see why this won the Steel Dagger Award."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
i. ' eptember 1989. The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink, desperately clinging to power through the iron grip of the Stasi, one of the crudest, w most formidable intelligence services the world has ever seen. Dr. Rudi Rosenharte, former Stasi agent, now an art scholar living in Dresden, is sent to Trieste to rendezvous with his old lover, who the Stasi believe has vital intelligence. The problem: Rudi knows she's dead. He saw her lying in her own bloodied bathwater, and then kept her suicide a secret. ' .
As collateral for the mission, the Stasi have imprisoned Rudi's family. But the Stasi is not the only intelligence agency using Rudi, and soon the British and Americans force him to choose between abandoning his beloved brother to a torturous death or returning to East Germany as a double agent. Brandenburg Gate is a brilliant, multilayered spy thriller that shows Henry Porter at the top of his game.
"A first-rate thriller . . . Porter sustains an elaborate plot skillfully and portrays memorable, multifaceted characters. But his achievement lies in . . . re-creating the paranoid, Kafkaesque state. This gives Brandenburg Gate a richness of texture and exhilaratingly testifies to the thriller genres ability to transcend its primary role as entertainment."
— The Sunday Times (London)
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