The standardization of demoralization procedures : a novel /
Hofmann, Jennifer,
The standardization of demoralization procedures : a novel / Jennifer Hofmann. - First edition. - 261 pages ; 25 cm
"On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute dedicated to weaponizing the paranormal. Now, on the day the Berlin Wall falls and Zeiger's mind begins to crumble, his past transgressions have come back to haunt him. Who is the real Lara, what happened to her, and what is her connection to these events? As the surveiller becomes the surveilled, the mystery is both solved and deepened, with unexpected consequences"--
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Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit --Officials and employees--Fiction.
Missing persons--Investigation--Fiction.
Waitresses--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Sick--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989--Fiction.
Science--Experiments--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Germany (East)--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Spy fiction.
The standardization of demoralization procedures : a novel / Jennifer Hofmann. - First edition. - 261 pages ; 25 cm
"On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara's vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute dedicated to weaponizing the paranormal. Now, on the day the Berlin Wall falls and Zeiger's mind begins to crumble, his past transgressions have come back to haunt him. Who is the real Lara, what happened to her, and what is her connection to these events? As the surveiller becomes the surveilled, the mystery is both solved and deepened, with unexpected consequences"--
9780316426459 0316426458
2020933473
Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit --Officials and employees--Fiction.
Missing persons--Investigation--Fiction.
Waitresses--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Sick--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989--Fiction.
Science--Experiments--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Germany (East)--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Spy fiction.