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Just the KGB bringing home one of its agents? Or, as he hopes, a more personal intervention? He has worked for the service long enough to know that nothing happens by chance. They want him for something. Not physics – his expertise is years out of date. 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He is the master of the shadows of the era' \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good German\u003c\/i\u003e (made into a film starring George Clooney), \u003ci\u003eLeaving Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping post-war story and an international bestseller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerlin\u003c\/b\u003e is still in ruins almost four years after the war, caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. \u003cb\u003eAlex Meier \u003c\/b\u003eis a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis for America before the war. Now, the politics of his youth have left him embroiled in the McCarthy witch-hunts. 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His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soon as the ship docks in Shanghai. Will he ever see her again?   Daniel is immediately plunged into his uncle’s seductive and corrupt world, and becomes involved in the launch of a new nightclub, the biggest, best and most glitzy in town. When violence breaks out and lives are at risk, he finds himself drawn irrevocably into the terrifying underworld that is wartime Shanghai.   Beautifully atmospheric and intricately plotted, this masterful thriller marks exciting new ground for an author hailed by the Sunday Times as ‘the most accomplished spy novelist working today’.   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