The Berlin Letters: A Cold War Novel

A CIA codebreaker unravels her own family’s secrets in the latest from Reay (A Shadow in Moscow). Ever since she was thrust across the border to safety by her desperate mother just as the Berlin Wall was going up in 1961, Luisa has been raised by her grandparents in the United States and believes that her parents are long dead in East Germany. But while working at the CIA in 1989, she is shocked to recognize a symbol on coded letters; she’s seen the same symbol in her own grandfather’s papers. She’s even more astonished when she discovers that the letters are part of a decades-long coded correspondence between her grandfather in the United States and her father in East Berlin. When the letters reveal that her father is still alive but in terrible danger in a Stasi prison, Luisa must risk everything for him before it’s too late. Reay’s tale slowly builds to a gripping and action-packed final third once Luisa begins her high-stakes attempt to rescue her father.