Bernhard Schlink, the acclaimed author of The Reader, delivers a gripping Cold War spy thriller. When Georg Polger, a young lawyer working as a freelance translator in a sleepy French village, is approached by the enigmatic Mr Bulnakov with an unusual business proposition, he finds himself pulled into a dangerous world far removed from his quiet existence. As Georg takes over a local translation agency under mysterious circumstances, he discovers that nothing is quite as it seems.
