Pips
25 sep. 2022
Spændende spion thriller efterkrigstidens Berlin. Alle vogter på alle. Hvem er ven og hvem er fjerde?
3.9
Spänningsromaner
New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year * The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.
Berlin, 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. Alex 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.
© 2015 Simon & Schuster Audio (Ljudbok): 9781442370005
© 2015 Simon & Schuster Audio (E-bok): 9781476704661
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 3 mars 2015
E-bok: 3 september 2015
3.9
Spänningsromaner
New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year * The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.
Berlin, 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. Alex 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.
© 2015 Simon & Schuster Audio (Ljudbok): 9781442370005
© 2015 Simon & Schuster Audio (E-bok): 9781476704661
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 3 mars 2015
E-bok: 3 september 2015
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Pips
25 sep. 2022
Spændende spion thriller efterkrigstidens Berlin. Alle vogter på alle. Hvem er ven og hvem er fjerde?
Ole
5 apr. 2021
Giver et godt indblik i efterkrigstidens paranoide mindset i Berlin. God historie!
Björn
4 nov. 2021
Efter 60 procent avbröt jag. Det blev för segt och jag såg inte riktigt miljöerna framför mig.
Wichard
27 jan. 2023
Geen snelle thriller, wel een boek met mooie verhaallijnen en opbouwende spanning.
Belinda
26 apr. 2022
Kan niet geboeid blijven. Niet aansprekend voorgelezen
Torgny
8 sep. 2022
Mycket bra och realistisk
Manfred
18 juni 2022
The reader is slow and not so inspiring. The sound quality of the recording is very poor.
Helhetsbetyg baserat på 46 betyg
Oförutsägbar
Nagelbitare
Bladvändare
Ladda ner appen för att vara med i snacket och lämna recensioner.
Visar 7 av 46
Pips
25 sep. 2022
Spændende spion thriller efterkrigstidens Berlin. Alle vogter på alle. Hvem er ven og hvem er fjerde?
Ole
5 apr. 2021
Giver et godt indblik i efterkrigstidens paranoide mindset i Berlin. God historie!
Björn
4 nov. 2021
Efter 60 procent avbröt jag. Det blev för segt och jag såg inte riktigt miljöerna framför mig.
Wichard
27 jan. 2023
Geen snelle thriller, wel een boek met mooie verhaallijnen en opbouwende spanning.
Belinda
26 apr. 2022
Kan niet geboeid blijven. Niet aansprekend voorgelezen
Torgny
8 sep. 2022
Mycket bra och realistisk
Manfred
18 juni 2022
The reader is slow and not so inspiring. The sound quality of the recording is very poor.
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