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Späte Seilschaften
Old Boys Network
Murder – almost incidentally
What do a professor from Oxford and a former agent for the “Stasi” (East German Secret Police) have to do with each other? They’re both under suspicion for murder. And they have a common past. It’s an exciting construct for a crime story set at the end of the Cold War.
Oxford archeology professor Anthony Gardener, a former agent for the British Secret Service (MI6), is afraid he’ll be falsely accused of murdering a young colleague. And former Stasi police captain Roepke is forced to disappear from Berlin when he discovers he is suspected of complicity in the robbery of an armored vehicle.
With the end of the conflict between east and west, these two protagonists encounter each other again. However, their stage is no longer the Gordian knots of their respective political systems. Instead, they’re caught between the wheels of powerful economic interests that threaten to tear them to pieces. The balance of power has shifted; the threat scenarios have taken on individual dimensions. Gardener and Roepke must work together to clear their names. A plot with depth against the backdrop of daily potential for danger.
* translation: Mary Tannert