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Jul 14, 2018gogo12127 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions rise to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting – an embassy nobody – goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found – alive. Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance. John le Carré's A Small Town in Germany chronicles the Cold War paranoia and political compromise. (Description, slightly edited, taken from the back cover of the paperback edition.) A Small Town in Germany has all the hallmarks of a John le Carré novel: tightly-knit story telling, not a word wasted on flowery descriptions, but tellingly descriptions of the grim streets of a post-war Bonn. John le Carré brilliantly portrays the upper class prejudices and pomposity of the senior embassy staff of a Britain that once was a super power but now being exposed as a second rate has-been. In many ways, the Leo Harting of A Small Town in Germany is the Alec Leamas of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.