A dramatic novel of intrigue and love set against the tumultous backdrop of Berlin in 1945 follows Jake Geismar, a former Berlin correspondent for CBS, who has been assigned to do a series of articles on the American occupation of postwar Berlin, as he tries to find Lena, the German mistress he left behind, and stumbles upon a murder, which hurls him into a dark underworld of corruption. 150,000 first printing. BOMC.