The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin
โ Scribed by Paul Vidich
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- EN-US
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1643138650
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โฆ Synopsis
In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carr e, The Matchmaker delivers __ a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband's mysterious disappearance.
Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe.
Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door.
Nothing about her marriage is as it seems. She had been targeted by the Matchmaker--a high level East German counterintelligence officer--who runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his "Romeos" who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover as they report back to the Matchmaker. Anne has been...
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