The German Club
If you ask people why the Berlin Wall came down so unexpectedly, those who remember those days might tell you it was because of President Ronald Reagan's famous "tear down this wall" speech. Many forget that address took place more than two years before Germans put sledgehammers and pick axes to the cement barrier as the beginning act of their reunification. Now, a story has begun to circulate about what really happened. It's a tale of a mysterious group with ties in many countries, a billionaire industrialist, the CIA, Stasi thugs, goosestepping East German soldiers, a Nazi general, massive disinformation -- and murder. In the middle of the story is a Chicago homicide detective who gets tossed into those whirlwind times and becomes key to them all.
"I do love a good mystery-thriller and The German Club ticked all the right boxes to keep me on the edge of my seat. Intrigue and espionage with political ramifications that stretch back to Germany in the period before the wall came down. East versus west and then an unlikely protagonist in the shape of a Chicago detective is thrown into the mix and he owns the show. The characters are fantastically well crafted and the surprises and twists just keep coming to make the purchase of this book a no-brainer for fans of the genre." — goodreads.com
