A review by admatthews
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon

4.0

Where Mick Herron comically updates and subverts the Le Carre image of espionage, Kanon's 60s Berlin can seem as if it is happening in exactly the same sphere as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with its oppressive and claustrophobic atmosphere and hidden and dummy motives. Really gathers pace to the end where there is a sharp twist in wait. Only issue may be that I didn't quite buy Keller's sudden transition from cautious scientist to apparently savvy mastermind.