From internationally bestselling author Joseph Kanon, hailed by the Sunday Times as ‘the most accomplished spy novelist working today’, comes a thriller set in WW2 Shanghai, a seductive and corrupt setting defined by wealth, crime and a dazzling nightlife.
From master of suspense Joseph Kanon, author of the bestsellers Istanbul Passage and Leaving Berlin, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British for some German students and returns to East Berlin needing to know who arranged his release and what they want from him.
A heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman connected to them both
Berlino, 1949. A quattro anni dalla fine della guerra, la città è ancora piena di macerie. La parte occidentale sopravvive a malapena grazie ai rifornimenti che arrivano per via aerea; a est il desiderio di ricostruzione è compromesso dalla Guerra Fredda. Lo spionaggio e il mercato nero sono all'ordine del giorno. Alex Meier, un giovane scrittore ebreo, è sfuggito ai nazisti prima della guerra e si è rifugiato in America. Ma a causa degli ideali politici della sua giovinezza è ormai nel mirino di McCarthy. Di fronte alla possibilità di essere deportato e di perdere la sua famiglia, fa un affare disperato con la neonata potrà tornare in America dopo che avrà lavorato come agente segreto nella sua Berlino. Ma le cose non vanno un rapimento non riuscito, un agente tedesco ucciso, e Alex si trova a essere un ricercato. Peggio ancora, scopre che il suo vero incarico è spiare la donna che ha lasciato, l'unica che abbia mai amato. Cambiare bandiera a Berlino è facile, ma ci sono limiti morali che non possono essere oltrepassati...
"In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief and misinformation; Frank's motives suspect, the CIA hostile. But the chance to see Frank, his adored older brother, proves irresistible. And at first Frank is still Frank--the same charm, the same jokes, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for "the service." He finds himself dragged into the middle of Frank's new scheme, caught between the KGB and the CIA in a fatal cat and mouse game that only one of the brothers is likely to survive."--
A sweeping novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught betwen political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation
A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue and moral confusion. Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon's attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own. How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to make? Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the aftermath of war, an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.
Amesmerising tale of old Hollywood glamour and post-war espionage from the author of The Good German.
Berlin, 1945.Ancien correspondant de la CBS, Jake Geismar peine à reconnaître les lieux où il a vécu autrefois: la capitale déchue du Me Reich n'est plus qu'un champ de ruines où errent des colonnes de réfugiés au regard vide. Venu officiellement pour couvrir la conférence de Potsdam, Jake espère en fait revoir Lena, sa maîtresse allemande qu'il a passionnément aimée. Mais comment la retrouver dans ce décor lunaire où les habitants disparaissent sans laisser de traces ? Où, pour sauver sa peau, on échange faux témoignages et informations hautement confidentielles ? Dans un climat de tension politique extrême, Jake va découvrir peu à peu toutes les ambiguïtés du dispositif allié: l'âme humaine est capable du pire quand il est question de préparer une nouvelle forme de guerre...