![]() ![]() 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. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. ![]() Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. ![]() ![]() In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. He lives in New York City.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK: Berlin 1948. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. EVENT OVERVIEW: Joseph Kanon will discuss his new novel Leaving Berlin.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award-winning author of 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. ![]()
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