Max Hertzberg

East Berlin Series: Omnibus Edition - East Berlin Max Hertzberg

Behind the Berlin Wall a dissident is on the trail of a killer

The East Berlin Series Omnibus, including:

Stealing The FutureThoughts Are FreeSpectre At The Feast




'The brilliance of Stealing The Future lies in its honest portrayal of the struggle to keep alive the dream of freedom, justice and equality.' New Internationalist

'A compelling re-imagining of East Germany's peaceful revolution in 1989-exploring what might have been. Fiona Rintoul, author of The Leipzig Affair




1993. After forty years of communist rule it's time for change: participatory democracy, citizen's movements and de-centralization are part of a new political landscape in East Berlin. But when a politician's crushed body is found a constitutional crisis erupts.




Ex-dissident Martin Grobe turns detective and his investigations point towards the Stasi, the KGB and the West Germans-has he uncovered a putsch against the new GDR, or is it just a conspiracy to murder?