Bestselling Backlist The Good German, (Paperback)

from bnbookgirl

#unreadshelfproject 2019 - While I found the story interesting, I found the length far to long. I felt like this story could have been wrapped up sooner. I found myself actually getting bored with the story. I also felt that there were too many ancillary characters. They made the story confusing ...

from tess_schoolmarm

The story of Berlin in 1945 during the Potsdam Conference. This was an audio book I listened to and while the reader was good, the sentences were short and clipped. Problems with this book: lines not attributed to a speaker, too many characters to keep track of, improbable escape scenes and too l...

from AnneliM

Set in Berlin in 1945. Jake Gaisman, former Berlin correspondence for CBS, has wranled a press lot for the Potsdam conference. He wants to find his German (married) mistress. He stumbles on a murder and finds a larger story of corruption and intrigue.

from bcquinnsmom

Jake Geismar, a reporter for Collier's magazine, is sent to Berlin right at the time of the Potsdam conference. Berlin was Jake's home once, before the war; it was then he had met and fell in love with Lena, married to Emil Brandt. Upon Jake's return to Berlin, he begins to look for Lena, but bef...

from alebel

I definitely thought the plot was intriguing, although it took awhile for me to get into it. It was interesting to compare how things in Iraq now resemble the same plights you see in the book about how it was in Germany directly after the war... the desperate wish for people to go to America, the...