The Good German: Joseph Kanon

Potsdam, 1945. In the wreckage of the Third Reich, Churchill, Stalin and Truman are meeting to map out the future of the post-war world. But as the leaders arrive for the celebratory banquet, a body is washed up on the shore of the conference grounds. What is a US soldier doing in a Russian quarter, with a pouch full of Occupation marks and a bullet hole in his chest? For Jake Geismar, a journalist who has wangled a press slot at the historic summit, this is the story he's been looking for. But Berlin is not Chicago and Jake's crime investigation skills count for little in a city so at unease with itself; where one war has ended but another is beginning...