Operation Morgenfrost

Berlin, the winter of 1948. A blockaded city survives on the cargo planes that fall out of the grey every three minutes into Tempelhof. Hans Keller, a German-born interpreter for the Americans, has outlasted the war the only way he knows how - by being useful to everyone and remembered by no one.Then a transport goes down, and a survivor's testimony crosses his desk carrying a roster of names whose misspellings are far too precise to be mistakes. As Hans breaks the cipher, he uncovers the impossible: the code is keyed to his own private notes. Someone has been reading him through his own hand.Caught between a British handler who offers a protection she cannot promise, a Soviet agent hunting a buried wartime archive, and a ghost who sells the same secret to every side at once, Hans learns that in occupied Berlin the safe middle ground is the one place with no floor. To stay alive, the man who only ever turned words into meaning must finally decide what his own words are worth - and whose side he was on all along.A taut, atmospheric Cold War spy thriller for readers of John le Carré, Joseph Kanon, and Alan Furst.