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My 4th book by this Author. Probably for me the most complicated to read as many characters. Set in Berlin in July and August of 1945. The Nazi’s defeated. Japan still fighting. Jake Geismar an American journalist returns to the city to find the woman he used to live with.

He also comes across the body of a US officer whose clothes are full of money. Investigating this he stumbles on a story. Nazis being given whitewashing (‘perselschein� of their past to further Allied benefits eg. (rocket scientists). Spies and Russians upto no good.

Book is slow initially but perks up later. There is a film made of it and I will dig it out eventually. Yes it is commented by the Guardian that there is a resemblance to the Third Man. But also I saw in Geismar the Humphrey Bogart from ‘Casablanca.�

I will stay in the espionage genre for my next read.