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With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: some articles on the Allied occupation. His personal agenda: to find Lena, the German mistress he left behind at the outbreak of the war.
When Jake stumbles over a murder -- an American soldier washes through to the conference grounds -- he thinks he has found the key that will unlock his Berlin story. What Jake finds instead is a more substantial story of corruption and intrigue reaching deep in to the heart of the occupation. Berlin in July 1945 is similar to nowhere else -- a tragedy, and a feverish party following the end of the world.
As Jake searches the ruins for Lena, he discovers that many years of war have led to unimaginable displacement and degradation. As he hunts for the soldier's killer, he learns that Berlin has become a city of secrets, a lunar landscape that seethes with social and political tension. When the two searches become entangled, Jake comes to understand that the American Military Government is already fighting a fresh enemy in the east, busily identifying the "good Germans" who is able to help win another war. And hanging over everything is the larger crime, a crime so huge that it appears -- the worst irony -- beyond punishment.
At once a murder mystery, a moving love story, and a riveting portrait of a unique time and place, The Good German is a historical thriller of the first rank.
