Poisoned chalice

t is not easy, and can even be perilous, to leap the divide between journalism and fiction. But young German writer Takis Würger, a reporter for , has not only managed the feat twice but has succeeded in his boldness. His first novel, , was a bestseller and an award, which takes on the well-traversed setting of wartime Berlin and the potentially disastrous subject of Jewish collaboration with the Gestapo.