Author(s): Kanon, Joseph

Fiction

Potsdam, 1945. In the rubble of the Third Reich, on the outskirts of the ruins of Berlin, Churchill, Stalin, and Truman are meeting to map out the future of the post-war world. But as the leaders arrive for a celebratory banquet, a body is washed up on the shore of the conference grounds. What is a US soldier doing in a Russian quarter, with a pouch full of Occupation marks and a bullet hole in his chest? Journalist Jake Geismar has found the story he is looking for in Berlin and decides to stay, but the murder investigation is not his sole motive.