Leaving Berlin

Resumen del libro

Berlin 1948. 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? Betrayal? Survival? Murder?
Filled with intrigue and the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties, Leaving Berlin is a compelling thriller and a love story that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.

Biografía del autor

Joseph Kanon (Pennsylvania, 1946) es autor de cinco novelas: Los álamos, que ganó el Premio Edgar a la mejor obra primeriza; El buen alemán (publicada en RBA), que se convirtió en una película protagonizada por George Clooney y Cate Blanchett; The Prodigal spy y Alibi, con las que otorgaron a Kanon con el premio Hammett de la International Association of Crime Writers; y Estambul. También ha recibido el Anne Frank Human Writers Award por sus escritos acerca de las secuelas del Holocausto. Antes de convertirse en escritor a tiempo completo, trabajó como directivo de una empresa editorial. Vive en Nueva York con su mujer, la agente literaria Robin Straus, con la que tiene dos hijos.