Leaving Berlin

A sweeping novel set in postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation, from the author of "The Good German", "Los Alamos" and "Stardust". A young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis for America before the war now finds himself in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA.

Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award-winning author of The Berlin Exchange, The Accomplice, Defectors, Leaving Berlin, Istanbul Passage, Stardust, Alibi, The Prodigal Spy, Los Alamos and The Good German, which was made into a major film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Other awards include the Hammett Award of the International Association of Crime Writers and the Human Writes Award of the Anne Frank Foundation. He lives in New York City. Visit him online at Joseph.Kanon.com