Brandenburg: On the 30th anniversary, a brilliant thriller about the fall of the Berlin Wall

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'A fascinating switchback roller-coaster of a plot' Guardian November 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man is caught between East and West... The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. In the last few paranoid weeks of the Communist world one man will carry out one last desperate mission under the very noses of the Stasi. Dr Rudolf Rosenharte is an academic from Dresden and agent for MI6; his controller is Robert Harland, from A SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE. When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a stark choice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies of the Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out the most dangerous assignment of his career. November 1989 will mean the end of communism. But will it mean the end of Rosenharte?

Henry Porter was a regular columnist for the Observer and now writes about European power and politics for The Hive website in the US. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including Brandenburg, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, A Spy's Life and Empire State, which were both nominated for the same award. He is also the author of the Paul Samson spy thrillers: Firefly, which won the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and White Hot Silence. Henry Porter is frequently described as the heir to John le Carre. He lives in London.

A first-rate thriller ... Porter sustains an elaborate plot skilfully and portrays memorable, multi-faceted characters ... exhilaratingly testifies to the thriller genre's ability to transcend its primary role as entertainment - Sunday Times Porter is both his own man and the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carre. British espionage fiction is the best in the world and Porter is part of the reason why - Lee Child An espionage master - Charles Cumming Porter has proved that he'e a torchbearer in a great tradition - Sunday Express