by PiersPaulRead (Author)
A Patriot In Berlin is the dramatic story of Berlin after the fall of the Wall, and Moscow after Gorbachev - of love, faith and patriotism in conflict. Berlin, August 1991. An emigre Russian couple are found murdered. American art historian Francesca McDermott is recruited to organise a major retrospective of 20th century Russian painting. In Moscow, the search begins for a rogue former KGB agent, Andrei Orlov, who has disappeared without trace. Three seemingly unconnected events...Working alongside Francesca is a Russian expert on the art that Communism dismissed as decadent . Serotkin is combative, attractive, mysterious; he is also secretive, and his secrets hold lives to ransom.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 1857994108
ISBN 13: 9781857994100
Book Overview: * A powerful, gripping thriller from a master storyteller * From the bestselling author of Alive, The Great Train Robbers, A Married Man and The Free Frenchman * Piers Paul Read has won the Hawthornden Prize and Geoffrey Faber, Somerset Maugham and James Tait Black Awards * Not merely an engrossing and plausible thriller, but also a thoughtful and elegantly written novel - perhaps his best yet...A Patriot In Berlin is an extremely fine novel, and it is a great relief to know that there are still such accomplished storytellers in our midst Sunday Times * Never less than thought-provoking and it kept me intrigued throughout Literary Review * Reprinted twice in hardcover withing a month of publication.