Stealing the Future: An East German Spy Story (East Berlin Series)

Behind the Berlin Wall, dissident turned investigator Martin Grobe is on the trail of a killer—but is there something bigger at stake? After forty years of dictatorship it’s time for change. The 1989 revolution in East Germany led to economic collapse and a failed takeover attempt by the West. Four years on, the people of East Germany are building a utopian society. But when the crushed body of a prominent politician is found a constitutional crisis erupts—Martin needs to find the links before the young republic breaks up. Behind the Berlin Wall a dissident is on the trail of a killer 1993. After forty years of communist rule it's time for change in the GDR. Direct democracy, citizen's movements and de-centralization are changing the political landscape. But when a politician's crushed body is found a constitutional crisis erupts. Former dissident, Martin Grobe, is caught up in an investigation that points towards the KGB, the Stasi and the West Germansbut is it really the start of a putsch against the new GDR, or just a murder?