A Novel.
Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable - streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew and, miraculously, his lost love, Lena
But in the way she would not leave him before the war, Lena won't join him now without finding her husband and Emil has disappeared from the safe care of the Americans who, turning a blind eye to this links with Hitler, want his expertise as a rocket designer for themselves.
Trawling through the shambles of the city, through the illegal nightclubs and the thriving black market, Jake discovers that the twilight war of intrigue between West and East has already begun and that he could quite easily be one of his first casualties.
