A Small Town in GermanyA riveting work of Cold War spy fiction from the master of espionage thrillers, John le Carr's A Small Town in Germany is published with an introduction by Hari Kunzru in Penguin Modern Classics. West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing along with more than forty

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