The Coldest City
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3.5 • 22 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
November 1989. Communism is collapsing, and soon the Berlin Wall will come down with it. But before that happens there is one last bit of cloak & dagger to attend to. Two weeks ago, an undercover MI6 officer was killed in Berlin. He was carrying information from a source in the East—a list that allegedly contains the name of every espionage agent working in Berlin, on all sides. No list was found on his body. Now Lorraine Broughton, an experienced spy with no pre-existing ties to Berlin, has been sent into this powderkeg of social unrest, counter-espionage, defections gone bad and secret assassinations to bring back the list and save the lives of the British agents whose identities reside on it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An espionage thriller set during the fall of the Berlin Wall paints an elaborate series of crosses and double-crosses that's too tangled by its end. Lorraine Broughton is a British intelligence agent sent into Berlin to find out who killed British agent James Gascoine and recover a list of the identities of all intelligence officers operating on all sides in Berlin. She arrives in Berlin and discovers her local contact is an older, experienced agent who's slow to trust the young woman sent to help him. And she finds she may not want to trust him, as he's implicated in a secret organization of hired killers selling their skills to both sides. The investigation gets chaotic as the wall begins to be torn down, Broughton's contacts begin turning up dead, and she's forced to leave Berlin to report back to MI6 and attempt to figure out what went wrong. The conclusion becomes tangled in too many twists, and too many key pieces of information are revealed after the climax. Hart's b&w art with minimal background details does create tense, character-focused visuals that use shadow well to play up the characters' suspicions.
