Operation Oskar

By Max Hertzberg

Lieutenant Reim of the Stasi is down in the dumps. Literally.

Sent to Schöneiche landfill site on a punishment assignment, Reim soon discovers Soviet soldiers searching the tip for porn, Westerners smuggling cigarettes and a truck driver with something to hide.

Determined to find out more, Reim is soon caught up in a case that takes him over the Berlin Wall to the capitalist West. But when the KGB and the British occupation forces in Berlin take an interest, Reim begins to question whether Operation Oskar is worth risking his life for.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Max Hertzberg
• Release date: Apr 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781913125011

Max Hertzberg

After the experience of the East German political upheaval in 1989/90 Max Hertzberg became a Stasi files researcher. Since then, he has also been a book seller and a social change trainer and facilitator. He is currently working on COLD ISLAND, a novel set in the near future of a post-Brexit UK (available autumn 2018) Visit the author’s website for background information on the GDR, features on this series and its characters, as well as guides to walking tours around the East Berlin in which these books are set. www.maxhertzberg.co.uk