How the Berlin Wall really came down: an ill-timed fictional peek
behind the scenes in a Germany slouching toward reunification -
despite the best efforts of the superpowers to keep the Wall in
place. This is British political advisor Dobbs's first hard-cover
appearance. Harry Benjamin is a CIA recruit posted to the Berlin
embassy to keep him out of trouble under the hoydenish eye of his
superior Mary Pickerstaff. Since he has no contacts and no
diplomatic experience, he naturally realizes that the "spontaneous"
demonstrations against the Wall have actually been orchestrated by
industrialist Edward Schumacher - and that Schumacher (whose
uninhibited, haunted wife, Katherine, Harry would love to bed) is a
KGB agent bent on pressing for German reunification solely in order
to torpedo delicate arms talks between weakening Soviet Premier
Andreyev and airheaded US President Michelle on behalf of those
dissident KGB officers who still won't accept glasnost despite
countless fictional defeats. Katherine turns out to be "so much
more" than the "mere girls" who once shared Harry's bed, but that's
the extent of his satisfactions, as his desperate bid to unmask
Schumacher runs afoul of Miss Pickerstaff's orders, Katherine's
scruples, Schumacher's uncanny ability to defuse Harry's threats,
and eventually - in a scene that's been a long time coming - the
crumbling Wall itself. Dobbs's determined bleakness, untouched by
humor or any complexity of motive, seems forced and even a little
naive. For like-minded readers. (Kirkus Reviews)
From the No 1 bestselling author of HOUSE OF CARDS, a new-cover
reprint of a highly acclaimed thriller of international intrigue
that brilliantly captures the tense atmosphere of Berlin -- just
before the wall came down. The dawn of glasnost. The thaw is slowly
beginning as leaders in both East and West set out tentatively to
build a new era of peace. Yet the people of Berlin are in no mood
for diplomatic caution. Across the heart of their city still stands
the monstrous construction of the Wall that has split them apart
for a generation. They will fight to have it torn down, and to
reunite their city -- just as there are those in Washington and
Moscow who will use them to kill off the new flower of glasnost.
Into the troubled city of Berlin comes Harry Benjamin, a young and
irrepressible CIA agent. He hadn't planned on falling in love --
even less on that illicit love casting him as a pawn in this latest
battle for Berlin. But Harry will not be anyone's pawn. He is
determined to reveal the treachery, even if it means destroying the
most powerful men in East and West -- and his love -- in the
process!
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