Potsdam, 1945. In the rubble of the Third Reich, on the outskirts of the ruins of Berlin, Churchill, Stalin and Truman are meeting to map out the future of the post-war world. But as the leaders arrive for a celebratory banquet, a body is washed up on the shore of the conference grounds.
What is a US soldier doing in a Russian quarter, with a pouch full of Occupation marks and a bullet hole in his chest? For journalist Jake Geismar, the murder of Lieutenant Tully is the story he has been looking for. Berlin, though, is no Chicago, and Jake's crime investigation skills count for little in a city so at unease with itself, where one war may have ended, but another is just beginning . . .
