Dead Ground

"One frozen night in Germany, Tracy Barnes witnesses the killing of her lover by the secret police. Years later, when the Wall has crumbled and old enemies are new friends, Tracy encounters the murderer and plans to make him pay. But in a country still at war with itself, Tracy finds that she is being played as a pawn in a far bigger game of revenge that reaches all the way to Moscow."@en
"Spy fiction at its best: A mission of revenge, a haunting love story, and a chilling tale-in the definitive novel of the end of the Cold War. Celebrated for his "palm-sweating tension" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times) and "rare insight" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Gerald Seymour has scored bull's-eye after bull's-eye with readers and critics. Now, crackling with suspense and finely realized characters, Dead Ground floodlights an East Germany as chilling at the collapse of the Communist world as it was throughout its reign of terror. One frozen night Tracy Barnes witnesses the killing of her lover by the secret police."@en
"The politics of East Germany return to haunt Tracy Barnes, seeking revenge on the secret policeman who, years ago, murdered her lover, as she finds herself drawn into a bigger and deadlier design of vengeance."
"A woman corporal in the British Army plots to avenge the murder of her lover, a spy for the West in the old East Germany. Not an easy task, the Cold War is over and the murderer, an East German secret policeman, has friends in Western intelligence."@en