Plan D - 9781846556920

A modern-day Cold War thriller: Robert Harris's Fatherland meets John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
Imagine a world in which the Berlin Wall never fell...

October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the city, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR's chairman is found murdered -- and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi.

Detective Martin Wegener, still haunted by the mysterious disappearance of a trusted friend and the breakup of his relationship, is assigned to the case, but when news of the murder is leaked to the West they insist that if the crucial talks are to continue, one of their own detectives must be involved. With the future of East Germany hanging over him, Wegener must work with the Western police if he is to find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. It is a journey that will take him from Stasi meeting rooms to secret prisons and from determination to despair as he begins to unravel the identity of both victim and killer, and the meaning of the mysterious Plan D.