From the best-selling author of HOUSE OF CARDS, recently serialised by BBC TV. International politics in the 1990s: 'Glasnost' is in trouble and the demand for German reunification is growing. Enter Harry Benjamin, a CIA officer on his first foreign posting. Harry also has a personal mission: to rediscover the pre-War Berlin of his Jewish father. As Berlin becomes a battleground Harry discovers a web of treachery and deceit, and in a thrilling climax the future of Berlin and the fate of the most powerful men in the East and West come together at the foot of the Wall.