Book description
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced
a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition.
At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British
Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential
embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn
to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secrets and the delicate
machinations of an unstable Europe in the throes of the Cold War.
As Turner gets closer to the truth of Harting's disappearance, he
will discover that the face of International relations - and the
attentions of the British Ministry itself - is uglier that he could
possibly have imagined.
John le Carr was educated at the University of Berne (where he
studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford,
where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern
languages. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the British Foreign
Service, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in
Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing
novels in 1961, and since then has published twenty-one titles.
