Brandenburg Gate

Name: Brandenburg Gate
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Henry Porter
ISBN: 9781696607834

Author: Henry Porter

Series: Robert Harland #3

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 15 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 09/20/2022

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage

Synopsis

As East Germany collapses, a former Stasi agent is caught in the crossfire of international espionage in this "tour de force on par with John le Carré" (Library Journal, starred review).

Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award

September 1989. In the tense final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Communist government is on the brink of collapse. Even the Stasi, once a notoriously fearsome intelligence agency, can't stop the rebellion. In a desperate play for advantage, they send former foreign agent Dr. Rudi Rosenharte to Trieste to rendezvous with his old lover and fellow agent, Annalise Schering. They believe Annalise has vital intelligence. The only problem: Rudi knows she's dead. After seeing her lying in her own bloodied bathwater, he kept her suicide a secret.

As collateral for this mission, the Stasi have imprisoned Rudi's family. But the Stasi is not the only agency using him as a pawn. Soon the British MI6 and American CIA encircle him, forcing him to make an impossible choice.

About Henry Porter

Henry Porter has written eight internationally bestselling thrillers, including Brandenburg Gate, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and The Bell Ringers, which was also nominated for the award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on December 20, 2013

I visited East Berlin in 1989 a few months before the fall of the wall and the descriptions of the atmosphere (including smells!)and the run-down buildings echoed my memories. To use a cliche - I found this hard to put down. Henry Porter has done a great job of combining the book's characters with th......more

Goodreads review by Miki on September 22, 2009

A surprisingly enjoyable book set during the waning days of divided Germany. Not only a good plot, rife with human frailties and betrayals, but also an entirely credible societal context for cold-war East Germany. An excellent read, even if you aren't a fan of the spy genre.......more

Goodreads review by Jak60 on August 15, 2020

Author Henry Porter is like those sportsmen permanently on the brink of greatness: they are good, at times even very good, but they struggle to make the last jump into the top league. The Brandenburg Gate is a very atmospheric book: it’s 1989, the backdrop is the crumbling of the old Soviet Empire, a......more

Goodreads review by Davidg on August 31, 2015

Another exciting thriller by Henry Porter. We follow a complex series of plots in the weeks leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of East Germany. Time is running out for some of the plotters as history catches up with them. A cracking read.......more

Goodreads review by Ricky on July 23, 2018

It's a slow boil, and if you're looking for a thriller with three-page chapters and a cliffhanger at the end of every one of them, you won't enjoy it much. If you can enjoy just steeping in the cauldron of late-eighties East Germany, and soaking up the paranoid, chaotic atmosphere as the plot winds......more