The Cold Dark Night

Joe Purdey, an American journalist in Berlin to cover the conference encounters Gisela Schill, a refugee from East Germany whose husband has gone missing while working for British intelligence behind the Iron Curtain. He is drawn into the world of subterfuge and low-level spying taking place in the city. The novel concludes with a face-off between British and Soviet forces at the Anhalter Bahnhof, a ruined railway terminus on the border between the two zones.

• Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.

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