Sometimes all you have is hope.
In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Aware of the many whose families have been divided, Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help East Germans escape across the Berlin Wall and into the West.
Bob Inama, a soldier in the US Army, is stationed in West Germany. He’s glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend time together, they form a close connection. But when Bob receives classified orders to leave for undercover work immediately, he doesn’t get the chance to say goodbye.
With a fake identity, Bob’s special assignment is to be a spy embedded in East Germany, identifying possible targets for the US military. But Soviet and East German spies, the secret police, and Stasi informants are everywhere, and the danger of being caught and sent to a brutal East German prison lurks on every corner.
Best-selling author Heather B. Moore masterfully alternates the stories of Bob and Luisa, capturing the human drama unique to Cold War Germany was well as the courage and the resilience of the human spirit.
In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Aware of the many whose families have been divided, Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help East Germans escape across the Berlin Wall and into the West.
Bob Inama, a soldier in the US Army, is stationed in West Germany. He’s glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend time together, they form a close connection. But when Bob receives classified orders to leave for undercover work immediately, he doesn’t get the chance to say goodbye.
With a fake identity, Bob’s special assignment is to be a spy embedded in East Germany, identifying possible targets for the US military. But Soviet and East German spies, the secret police, and Stasi informants are everywhere, and the danger of being caught and sent to a brutal East German prison lurks on every corner.
Best-selling author Heather B. Moore masterfully alternates the stories of Bob and Luisa, capturing the human drama unique to Cold War Germany was well as the courage and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Can I just say that I love historical fiction? I know I say it all the time- like, every time I read a good historical fiction book. It's one of my favorite genres and this book proves, yet again, why I love it. I know that this book is labeled fiction, and some of it is, but some of it isn't. It's based on real events that happened to a real person that this author interviewed in preparation to write this book. It's such an amazing story of an amazing man and courageous, resilient people. My heart feels changed for the better.
The world is always in crisis somewhere, over so many things. For Bob, it was Germany in the 1960's. It was such a volatile time with so much violence and unrest. I felt right there in the middle of it as I read. This book isn't small. It's a hefty, thick book and I read through the whole story in one day. I couldn't put it down. I know I'm going to be thinking of this book for a long time.
Content: war violence, prisoner of war beatings (not much detail), peril
- I received a complimentary copy of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.
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Videos:
Surviving Prison in the Cold War: https://youtu.be/FHD7-fDgqV8
The Making of a Spy: https://youtu.be/haUC5-6DeE0
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