Summary
Joseph Kanon: The Good German
World War II is finally over. After years of waiting, former CBS Berlin correspondent Jake Geismar returns to report on the Potsdam Peace Conference. But his reasons for returning to the city of ruins are more personal. Somewhere among the hundreds of thousands of starving and defeated inhabitants of Berlin, Lena, his pre-war lover, another man's wife, may have survived. ".
But the mysterious murder of an American soldier will stimulate his journalistic instinct and send him in pursuit of a story that will become more and more intriguing from turn to turn.
In the dark sediment of the occupied city, in which the black market rules as much as the already opposed allied troops, the strong will realize that a new war has already begun, there among the ruins of the German capital, where spies from both sides waste no time in the general chaos uklone sve one koji im smetaju, jakea posebno.
Joseph Kanon inače.je urednik u izdavačkoj kući, a njegov ga je prvi roman Los Alomos katapultirao u rijetko naseljenu orbitu vrsnih pisaca špijunskih romana. Dobri Nijemac je kao povijesni roman izuzetno dobro oslikao jedno malo poznato razdoblje završetka li. svjetskog rata, a pritom je i špijunski triler začinjen efektnom ljubavnom pričom i sjajnom karakterizacijom glavnog ženskog lika koji, izrasta u istinsku heroine.
Translated by Valentina Vale.nt and illustrated by Igor Kordej, the novel The Good German is Joseph Kanon's first-rate return to the literary scene.
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