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The Stasi Game
- Oberleutnant Karin Müller, Book 6
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Series: Oberleutnant Karen Muller, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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Summary
The Stasi and MI6 clash in this gripping Cold War crime thriller, from the award-winning author of Stasi Child.
Dresden, East Germany, 1980.
A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People's Police Homicide Captain Karin Müller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body's identifiable features have been removed - including its fingertips.
The deeper Müller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper her investigations. She soon realises that this crime is just one part of a clandestine battle between two secret services - the Stasi of East Germany and Britain's MI6 - to control the truth behind one of the deadliest events of World War II.
The Stasi Game brilliantly fictionalises the true story of how Britain's wartime leaders justified the fire-bombing of the German city of Dresden, which many have since condemned as a war crime.
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- Gail Link
- 29-11-20
What a thriller!
Brilliant series and this one is the best-I can relate to this one as I live near Hull and visited Bad Schandau and Königstein last year. So hoping there will be another book. Please.
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- Mrs.Mary E.Torney
- 27-12-20
Decent plot spoiled
A gift of an idea over-written in a pedestrian and longwinded style. The ponderous, slow prissy narration grated and wore away any sympathy for the characters.
It was helpful in inducing sleep though.