On A Winter S Night At The Height Of The Cold War, In A Small Town On The Baltic Coast Of East Germany, A Young Man Is Dragged From The Sea And Killed By The Regime S Secret Police. The Witnesses Are Terrorized Into Silence. But A British Woman Is Present And Hears The Shot Which Ends Her Lover S Life.A Decade Later, Times Have Changed, The Wall Dividing Two Great Ideologies Has Crumbled And Old Enemies Have Become New Friends. An Ex-Captain In The Stasi S Counter Espionage Section, Dieter Krause Is A Fêted Guest At The Headquarters Of British Military Intelligence. He Is A Prized Asset, Able To Give A Detailed Profile Of A Rising Star In The Russian Ministry Of Defence. He Is Confident That The Skeletons In His Past Are Hidden, Until...Corporal Tracy Barnes, A Clerk, Attacks Him In The Officers Mess. For Her, The Waiting Time Is Over. She Was There At The Scene Of The Young Man S Murder Ten Years Before. She Knows Krause Is Responsible. But She Can T Prove It - She Needs The Witnesses To Talk. To Make Them Do So, She Must Follow Krause To Germany, Determined To See A Long-Delayed Victory For Justice. But Defeat May Mean A Place On The Mortuary Slab.
Dimensions:106 x 170
Author: Gerald Seymour
ISBN: 9780552146050
Format: Paperback
Pages 458