{"product_id":"leaving-berlin-book-joseph-kanon-9781476704654","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\u003e Best Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003e bestseller--a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49764149395729,"sku":"CIN1476704651G","price":3.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49773783318801,"sku":"CIN1476704651A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50135895802129,"sku":"CIN1476704651VG","price":4.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51028554219793,"sku":"NIN9781476704654","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52643341533457,"sku":"GOR008170037","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53237254783249,"sku":"GOR008451178","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1476704651.jpg?v=1750715862","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/leaving-berlin-book-joseph-kanon-9781476704654","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}