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Author Eastland, Sam, author.

Title The elegant lie / Sam Eastland.

Publication Info. London : Faber & Faber, 2019.
©2018

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  M EASTLAND, S.    Check Shelf
Description 337 pages ; 20 cm
Summary The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients supplied with goods so extravagant and rare that they were almost impossible to find even at the height of Germany's conquests. Nobody but Dasch, his enigmatic daughter and the war criminal he keeps as his bodyguard know how he does it. None of this has escaped the attention of Allied Intelligence, who face not only the systemic corruption of a country where everything is in short supply, but the growing threat of Stalin's KGB. Fearing that Dasch will soon expand his business to include dealings with Russia, and invite the further meddling of Russian agents in the west, the CIA sets in motion an undercover operation to infiltrate and, ultimately, destroy Dasch's empire. A disgraced American Army officer, Nathan Carter, is recruited to approach Dasch and to ingratiate himself with promises of stolen army supplies. As Carter moves further and further into the labyrinth of Dasch's world, it soon becomes clear that the black market ring has already been compromised, but by someone even more dangerous than the Russians.
Subject Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- Fiction.
Cologne (Germany) -- Fiction.
Black marketeers -- Germany -- Fiction.
Cold War -- Fiction.
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
FICTION / Crime.
FICTION / Historical / World War II.
FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage.
FICTION / Thrillers / Political.
Chronological Term 1945-1955
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Spy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Form: Ebook version : 9780571335701
ISBN 9780571335695 (trade paperback)
0571335691 (trade paperback)
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