Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks
excuses him from common morality. Cat burglar, card sharp, and
Cockney wide boy, the last thing he wants is to get drafted. But in
1946 he finds himself in the Royal Air Force, facing a stretch in
military prison . . . when along comes Lt Colonel Burne-Jones to
tell him MI6 has better use for his talents.
Posted to occupied Berlin, interrogating ex-Nazis, and burgling the
odd apartment for MI6, Wilderness finds himself with time on his
hands and the devil making work. He falls in with Frank, a US Army
captain, with Eddie, a British artilleryman and with Yuri, a major
in the NKVD and together they lift the black market scam to a new
level. Coffee never tasted so sweet. And he falls for Nell
Breakheart, a German girl who has witnessed the worst that Germany
could do and is driven by all the scruples that Wilderness lacks.
Fifteen years later, June 1963. Wilderness is free-lance and down
on his luck. A gumshoe scraping by on divorce cases. Frank is a big
shot on Madison Avenue, cooking up one last Berlin scam . . . for
which he needs Wilderness once more. Only now they're not smuggling
coffee, they're smuggling people. And Nell? Nell is on the staff of
West Berlin's mayor Willy Brandt, planning for the state visit of
the most powerful man in the world: "Ich bin ein Berliner "
"Then We Take Berlin" is a gripping, meticulously researched and
richly detailed historical thriller - a moving story of espionage
and war, and people caught up in the most tumultuous events of the
twenty-first century.
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