| Title | : | Rostock Connection: An East German Spy Novel (Reim Book 5) |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
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| Publication | : | Published August 17, 2021 |
Rostock Connection: An East German Spy Novel (Reim Book 5) Reviews
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Most spy novels, involve a Western Operative infiltrating an oppressive regime. Hertzberg's East German spy novels flips this giving us insights into life as a spy working for the oppressor spying on the West.
In this case, the spy is Hans-Peter Reim, Second Lieutenant, ZAIG/II at Berlin Centre, GDR. Reim has few of the admirable qualities of a Western Operative: he is an alcoholic, cold-blooded, opportunistic, self-centered cynic. Reim and his colleagues are in constant fear from the regime and from their superiors whom they know will take all the credit for their subordinates' successes and lay any failure to their feet.
Reim's task in this novel is to discover a turncoat who is leaking secrets to the West. The man he suspects, First Lieutenant Gerhard Sachse, has been responsible for the deaths of several of his friends including that of code name, Sanderling, Ruth Gericke whose death has incited the action of the first of the five (to date) novels of the series. Reim will be assisted in this novel by West German agent, Anna Webber, whom he betrayed in the previous novel.
Hertzberg's novels are well written, filled with detailed information about life in the East and exciting to read.
