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The Good German
A Historical Fiction Novel by Joseph Kanon
Subgenres:
- Post-WWII Berlin,
- Historical Thriller,
- Espionage
This book is for you if you're into...
- Berlin noir with postwar secrets and shifting allegiances
- Journalists caught between personal motives and global stakes
- Murder mysteries set against real historical backdrops
An American reporter uncovers a politically explosive murder in post-WWII Berlin in this historical thriller—now a major motion picture.
Berlin, 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has returned to write about the Allied triumph while pursuing a more personal quest: his search for Lena, the married woman he left behind.
When an American soldier's body is found in the Russian zone during the Potsdam Conference, Jake stumbles on the lead to a murder mystery.
Joseph Kanon's The Good German is a story of espionage and love, an extraordinary recreation of a city devastated by war, and a thriller that asks profound ethical questions about what we mean by good and evil in times of peace and of war.
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