{"product_id":"leaving-berlin","title":"Leaving Berlin","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLeaving Berlin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJoseph Kanon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781476704647\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAtria Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e384\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book * NPR Best Books 2015 * \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2015 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good German \u003c\/i\u003e\"deftly captures the ambience\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) of postwar East Berlin in his \"thought-provoking, pulse-pounding\" (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal) New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller--a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. 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. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. 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 almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment--to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? At betrayal? Survival? Murder? Joseph Kanon's compelling thriller is a love story that brilliantly brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Leaving Berlin | Joseph Kanon | Hardcover | 9781476704647 | Used: Very Good | Suspense \u0026 Thriller 1716365","offer_id":50863143289090,"sku":"1716365","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61DoYAckPNL.jpg?v=1792854599","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/leaving-berlin","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}