The Good German

Resumen del libro

Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable - streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew and, miraculously, his lost love, Lena. But in the way she would not leave with him before the war, Lena won't join him now without finding her husband and Emil has disappeared from the safe care of the Americans who, turning a blind eye to his links with Hitler, want his expertise as a rocket designer for themselves. Trawling through the shambles of the city, through the illegal night clubs and the thriving black market, Jake discovers that the twilight war of intrigue between west and east has already begun and that he could quite easily be one of its first casualties.
This is a novel of war, an action thriller, a tale of raw emotion and survival. Above all it is a tour de force of the triumph of humanity over man's depravity.

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.