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Brandenburg (Paperback)
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Synopsis
November 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man is caught between East and West...
The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in
the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in the Stasi jail, the hundreds of thousands of informers could do nothing to prevent the rebellion that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It is in the context of these last few paranoid weeks of the Communist
world, when a population that had been oppressed for nearly sixty years
found the will to rise up, that this outstanding thriller is set. Its hero is Dr
Rudolf Rosenharte, an academic from Dresden and agent for MI6; his
controller is Robert Harland, from A SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE.
When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a stark
choice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies of
the Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous assignment
under the Stasi's suspicious eye...
Reviews
'BRANDENBURG by Henry Porter is seriously rewarding. Set during the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's a stunning evocation of the Cold War at its nastiest'
TATLER
'Cogent, angry, stylish and informed'
LITERARY REVIEW
'Another elegant spy thriller that, I believe, John le Carré himself would be pleased to have attributed to him. As in all the best spy stories, it is not merely a tale of intrigue and deception, betrayal and retribution, but also an examination of the people who live through these experiences'
GUARDIAN
Product Details
- 576 pages
- 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
- ISBN-13 Number: 9780753828403
- Publication Date: September 2010
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