{"product_id":"leaving-berlin","title":"Leaving Berlin","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book * Named one of NPR and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal's \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of the Year * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 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.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48123305492669,"sku":"BS-TC0-704654","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781476704654-HD.jpg?v=1787080880","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/leaving-berlin","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}