{"product_id":"the-matchmaker-a-spy-in-berlin-9781639362929","title":"The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice  In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carr  The Matchmaker deliversa chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin  where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husbands mysterious disappearance.  Berlin  1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe.  Anne Simpson  an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee  thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears  and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door.  Nothing about her marriage is as it seems. She had been targeted by the Matchmakera high level East German counterintelligence officerwho runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his \"Romeos\" who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover as they report back to the Matchmaker. Anne has been married to a spy  and now he has disappeared  and is presumably dead.  The CIA are desperate to find the Matchmaker because of his close ties to the KGB. They believe he can establish the truth about a high-ranking Soviet defector. They need Anne because shes the only person who has seen his face - from a photograph that her husband mistakenly left out in his office - and she is the CIAs best chance to identify him before the Matchmaker escapes to Moscow. Time is running out as the Berlin Wall falls and chaos engulfs East Germany.  But what if Annes husband is not dead? And what if Anne has her own motives for finding the Matchmaker to deliver a different type of justice?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924577419317,"sku":"ByrdShop_1639362924","price":29.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781639362929.jpg?v=1794137252","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-matchmaker-a-spy-in-berlin-9781639362929","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}