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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 47 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
John Russell ; bk. 6 |
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Downing, David.
John Russell. Spoken word ; bk. 6
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Michael Healy. |
| Summary |
Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties, a paradise for spies. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly-created CIA. He does as little for either as he can safely get away with, and between the tawdry tasks they set him-assessing dubious defectors in Trieste, running a spy ring in a Berlin VD clinic, rescuing ex-Nazis who might prove useful from Czechoslovakia-he seeks a way to cut himself loose. His partner Effi Koenen has an easier time, starring in a popular radio series and looking after their adopted daughter Rosa, until a woman she helped save in the War turns up on her doorstep, and admits to a child she left behind all those years before, a child now trapped behind the new iron curtain. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Russell, John (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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British Americans -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction.
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Journalists -- Fiction.
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Secret service -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction.
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Cold War -- Fiction.
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Spy stories.
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Adventure stories.
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Audiobooks.
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Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Healy, Michael.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982414467 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982414464 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11024799 |
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