Winter Work - Dan Fesperman
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Dan Fesperman
Tags: Thriller, Historical Fiction
An exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wallfrom the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife Fesperman accurately depicts the corrosive effect of life under a surveillance society, debasing both the watchers and the watched. Most Cold War spy novels focus on the Manichaean ideological struggle between East and West; this one successfully explores a grayer era. The New York Times Book Review, On a chilly early morning walk on the wooded outskirts of Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow Stasi officer named Lothar, with a gunshot wound to the temple and a pistol in his right hand. Despite appearances, Emil suspects murder. A few months earlier he would have known just what to do, but now, as East Germany disintegrates, being a Stasi colonel is more of a liability than an asset. More troubling still is that Emil and Lothar were involved in a final clandestine mission, one that has clea
