Joseph Kanon. (2022). The Berlin Exchange: A Novel. Scribner.

Joseph Kanon. 2022. The Berlin Exchange: A Novel. Scribner.

Joseph Kanon, The Berlin Exchange: A Novel. Scribner, 2022.

Joseph Kanon. The Berlin Exchange: A Novel. Scribner, 2022.

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   • bioText: Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award–winning author of Los Alamos and nine other novels: The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, Stardust, Istanbul Passage, Leaving Berlin, Defectors, The Accomplice, The Berlin Exchange, and The Good German, which was made into a major motion picture 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.
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From "the most accomplished spy novelist working today" (The Sunday Times, London), a "heart-poundingly suspenseful" (The Washington Post) espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is returned to East Berlin, needing to know who arranged for his release and what they now want from him.
Berlin, 1963. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system. Keller's most critical possession: his American passport. Keller's most ardent desire: to see his ex-wife Sabine and their young son.

The exchange is made with the formality characteristic of these swaps. But Martin has other questions: Who asked for him? Who negotiated the deal? The KGB? He knows that nothing happens by chance. They want him for something. Not physics—his expertise is out of date. Something else, which he cannot learn until he arrives in East Berlin, when suddenly the game is afoot.

Intriguing and atmospheric, with action rising to a dangerous climax, The Berlin Exchange "expertly describes what happens when a disillusioned former agent tries to come in from the cold" (The New York Times Book Review), confirming Kanon as "the greatest writer ever of historical espionage fiction" (Spybrary).

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     September 1, 2021
     

     Back when he was the junior member of a CIA action team (and known as Sierra Six), Court Gentry, a.k.a. the Gray Man, helped messily eliminate a terrorist leader who now appears to be very much alive; next in Greaney's No. 1 New York Times best-selling series. In Hood's Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Transgression, the continuation of a recently launched series, Adam Hayes is asked by his CIA Black Ops program to set up a safe house and is the only survivor when the mission is blown. Dedicated to helping others after having escaped from a shadowy black box program aimed at creating assassins, Evan Smoak, a.k.a. Orphan X, has a new mission in Hurwitz's Dark Horse: rescue the kidnapped daughter of Texas drug overlord Aragon Urrea (200,000-copy first printing). In Jance's Nothing To Lose, retired police detective Beaumont is asked for help by the son of his former partner Sue Danielson, who was murdered years ago by her raging ex-husband. Johansen gives us a big, new Killer View of Jessie Mercado, a Southern California private investigator who surfaces regularly in the "Kendra Michaels" series he writes with his mother, Iris Johansen. In the Edgar Award-winning Kanon's Cold War Berlin-set The Berlin Exchange, two U.S. students and an MI5 operative are being quietly traded far from Checkpoint Charlie for physicist Martin Keller, who had been imprisoned in the UK and now wants to see his ex-wife and son--but what do the East Germans want from him? (125,000-copy first printing). Wending their way through City of the Dead, Kellerman stalwarts Alex Delaware and his buddy, Det. Milo Sturgis, discover a naked, bled-out young man in the streets and a trail of blood leading to the nearby home of sliced-up Cordelia Gannett, an internet influencer Alex knows. Multi-award-winning Northern Irish writer McKinty follows up the New York Times best-selling, Paramount Pictures-ready The Chain with The Chase, so obviously of interest that we won't even worry about the absence of plot details (150,000-copy first printing). In the New York Times best-selling Mezrich's The Midnight Ride, fresh-from-prison Nick Patterson sneaks into a hotel room on an obligatory job to find his fence dead and scared-witless MIT student Hailey Gordon hiding out after having been caught counting cards; added to this mix is a U.S. history professor's discovery of an unsettling secret about the Revolutionary War (75,000-copy first printing). A domestic-thrills author with 20 Sunday Times best sellers to her name, Parks limns the unaccountable disappearance of two women--contented wife and stepmother Leigh and wealthy, newly married Kai--in cases that shouldn't be linked but seem to be in Both of You (100,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing).

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 1, 2021
     Kanon has made Cold War Berlin his Yoknapatawpha County, and he returns to it again in this riveting tale of a spy forced to go back into the cold as a way of reclaiming his life. In 1963, Martin Keller, an American physicist who betrayed the West, has been moldering in a British prison for 15 years. Now he's out, but only so he can be exchanged for two students in prison in Berlin. Keller agrees to the deal because he wants to see his former wife, Sabine, and son, Georg, but it quickly becomes apparent that both the East Germans and the Russians have under-the-table plans for him. Keller is done with spying, but he has his own agenda: get Sabine, who is suffering from cancer, out of Berlin and back to the West. The obstacles are formidable: Sabine is now married to a Communist Party bigwig in the business of arranging prison swaps for cash, and Georg is the child star of a Berlin sitcom. Keller has a plan, though, and it's a doozy: we watch it take shape in real time, as much in the dark as those around him as to what kind of formula this master logician has devised on the chalkboard of his mind. Genuine suspense, including an exciting variation on the border-crossing theme, combine beautifully with moving psychological drama.

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     November 29, 2021
     American physicist Martin Keller, the protagonist of this tense spy thriller from Kanon (The Accomplice), was one of the scientists entrusted with the secrets of the Manhattan Project, but he later betrayed that trust by sharing top-secret plans and drawings he memorized with East German intelligence. Keller continued his spying at Harwell, England’s analogue to Los Alamos, until he was found out and imprisoned in 1953. Out of the blue in 1963, Keller’s freed in Berlin as part of a British–East German spy swap, but a gunman almost takes him out at Checkpoint Charlie. Once safe in East Berlin, he reunites with his ex-wife, Sabine, and their 11-year-old son, but he’s dismayed to learn Sabine has a terminal illness. Meanwhile, Keller wonders why he was set free and why an assassin tried to kill him. Kanon balances a convincing portrayal of spycraft with fleshed-out characters, while vividly depicting the impact of secret lives on the loved ones of those engaged in espionage. Fans of Len Deighton’s Bernard Samson series will be pleased. Agent: Binky Urban, ICM Partners.

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     December 15, 2021
     After a prisoner exchange lands him in East Berlin, an American physicist who'd been imprisoned in Britain for 10 years for spying for the KGB risks everything to get his loved ones to freedom. The year is 1963. Martin Keller, a one-time Los Alamos researcher who had idealistic intentions in sharing secrets with Russia, then an American ally, learns only after he arrives in Germany that the prisoner swap was arranged by Kurt Thiele, a shifty East German who specializes in such matters and who is married to Keller's former wife, Sabine, a West German. After her marriage to Kurt, she settled in East Berlin with Peter, her son by Martin. From the start, when shots are fired at either Martin or Kurt at the checkpoint during their crossing into East Berlin, things are tense. Martin has barely settled into his new residence when Western intelligence descends on him and pressures him into working for them. He slowly realizes that the "important work" he will be doing as a physicist is not what he agreed to. After learning that Sabine is dying of cancer, he devises a plan to escape with her and Peter to get her medical treatment in the West, but how will that sit with their precocious 11-year-old actor son, who has been programmed by the socialist propaganda of the hit TV series in which he stars? In a city rife with corruption (the East Germans were selling prisoners for 40,000 Deutschemarks a head--"more if he was valuable"), no one can be trusted. But someone must be if Martin's dangerous plan is to succeed. A novel that gives paranoia a new name, Kanon's latest in a brilliant collection--including Leaving Berlin (2014) and Istanbul Passage (2012)--may be his most tightly rendered. The suspense builds quietly, almost stealthily, before tightening its grip. Another supersophisticated spy thriller from a ranking master.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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