Author: KANON, JOSEPH
Title: The Good German
Description: London, Little Brown. 2002. (ISBN: 0316851965). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to lower closed edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel set in Berlin in 1945, where in Potsdam on the outskirts of the city, Churchill, Stalin and Truman are meeting to map out the future, but as the leaders arrive for a celebratory banquet, a body is washed up on the shore of the conference grounds. What is a US soldier doing in a Russian quarter with a pouch full of Occupation marks and a bullet hole in his chest? For journalist Jake Geismar, part of the American press corps, the murder of Lieutenant Tully is the story he is looking for, where he can use his crime investigation skills. Jake has another reason to stay in Berlin as he wants to find his former lover, Lena Brandt, and his investigations reveal that Tully was responsible for Lena's husband Emil, an eminent German scientist. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.88 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Fiction, Berlin 1945, Potsdam, Jake Geismar 0316851965


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