The Good German
If war is Hell, then what comes after?
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A morally complex post-war noir that weaves a murder investigation with a rekindled romance amid the ruins of Berlin and the corruption of Allied occupation.
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
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