The Good German (Bestselling Backlist)

Now a Major Motion PictureThe bestselling author of Los Alamos returns to 1945. Hitler has been defeated and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war has returned to write about the Allied triumph while pursuing a more personal quest: his search for Lena the married woman he left behind. When an American soldiers body is found in the Russian zone during the Potsdam Conference Jake stumbles on the lead to a murder mystery. Jason Kanons The Good German is a story of espionage and love an extraordinary recreation of a city devastated by war and a thriller that asks the most profound ethical questions in its exploration of the nature of justice and what we mean by good and evil in times of peace and of war.