BERLIN. CHRISTMAS 1979.
THE COLD WAR HAS RULES.
SOMEONE HAS JUST BROKEN THEM.
Mike Peterson crosses into East Germany at night and sees what no American was meant to see: Soviet tanks gutted for parts, weeks before Moscow invades Afghanistan.
Within hours, he is marked. His Soviet counterpart, Lev Leviaski, guards the same secret but needs it exposed. Neither can trust his own side. Both know what awaits captured men: concrete rooms, bright lights and the KGB.
CROSS THE WRONG LINE IN BERLIN, AND THERE IS NO COMING BACK.
The hunt closes in. Friends vanish. Interrogation becomes torture. One wrong word means a bullet in a Soviet cell.
Enemies by training and traitors by necessity, Mike and Lev have one card left to play: the one thing spies must never do.
Trust each other.
From David Bickford, former Legal Director of MI5 & MI6 and former legal adviser to the British Military Government in Berlin.
A Cold War thriller informed by a world he knew from the inside.
‘THE GRIPPING COLD WAR ATMOSPHERE, LEV’S SACRIFICE, AND THE FINAL SILENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT BETWEEN LEV AND MIKE PETERSON LEFT US EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATED. THE AFGHANISTAN TWIST, BERLIN POLITICS, ESPIONAGE MANEUVERING, AND THE PARALLEL LOVE STORY WERE ALL COMPELLING AND SKILLFULLY WOVEN TOGETHER.’
— BookShelfBliss
‘RUSSIAN TANKS, CLANDESTINE MEETINGS, FORBIDDEN LOVE, AND TWO COLD WARRIORS GAMBLING WITH HISTORY ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE BERLIN WALL. WITH ECHOES OF JOHN LE CARRÉ, THE BERLIN TRUCE IS INTELLIGENT, ATMOSPHERIC, AND UNMISTAKABLY AUTHENTIC—A PROPER ESPIONAGE THRILLER WRITTEN BY A MAN WHO KNOWS THE SECRET WORLD FROM THE INSIDE.’
— Jack MacTavish, author of Royal Diamonds and Tales from the Caribbean
‘A FIRST CLASS THIRLLER’
— Charles Cumming, Best selling author
Genre: Thriller
THE COLD WAR HAS RULES.
SOMEONE HAS JUST BROKEN THEM.
Mike Peterson crosses into East Germany at night and sees what no American was meant to see: Soviet tanks gutted for parts, weeks before Moscow invades Afghanistan.
Within hours, he is marked. His Soviet counterpart, Lev Leviaski, guards the same secret but needs it exposed. Neither can trust his own side. Both know what awaits captured men: concrete rooms, bright lights and the KGB.
CROSS THE WRONG LINE IN BERLIN, AND THERE IS NO COMING BACK.
The hunt closes in. Friends vanish. Interrogation becomes torture. One wrong word means a bullet in a Soviet cell.
Enemies by training and traitors by necessity, Mike and Lev have one card left to play: the one thing spies must never do.
Trust each other.
From David Bickford, former Legal Director of MI5 & MI6 and former legal adviser to the British Military Government in Berlin.
A Cold War thriller informed by a world he knew from the inside.
‘THE GRIPPING COLD WAR ATMOSPHERE, LEV’S SACRIFICE, AND THE FINAL SILENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT BETWEEN LEV AND MIKE PETERSON LEFT US EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATED. THE AFGHANISTAN TWIST, BERLIN POLITICS, ESPIONAGE MANEUVERING, AND THE PARALLEL LOVE STORY WERE ALL COMPELLING AND SKILLFULLY WOVEN TOGETHER.’
— BookShelfBliss
‘RUSSIAN TANKS, CLANDESTINE MEETINGS, FORBIDDEN LOVE, AND TWO COLD WARRIORS GAMBLING WITH HISTORY ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE BERLIN WALL. WITH ECHOES OF JOHN LE CARRÉ, THE BERLIN TRUCE IS INTELLIGENT, ATMOSPHERIC, AND UNMISTAKABLY AUTHENTIC—A PROPER ESPIONAGE THRILLER WRITTEN BY A MAN WHO KNOWS THE SECRET WORLD FROM THE INSIDE.’
— Jack MacTavish, author of Royal Diamonds and Tales from the Caribbean
‘A FIRST CLASS THIRLLER’
— Charles Cumming, Best selling author
Genre: Thriller
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