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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre. Chosen because it's one of the best, if not the best, spy stories ever written.
Day of the Jackal by Fredrick Forsyth, another superb British writer of thrillers. Have re-read the novel and re-seen the movie several times.
Hannah's Dress, Berlin 1904-2014, by Pascale Hugues. A journalist uses her experience living on one street in the German capital as a window into that country's past.
Union Jack by Christopher Sandford. John Kennedy's lifetime fascination with Britain and how it influenced him.
Fatherland by Robert Harris, still another British thriller writer. Takes on the what-if situation, what if Hitler had won and applies it to a murder mystery/thriller story.

I earned a B. A. Degree from the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in political science and minoring in history. Afterwards I passed my stock broker's exam and worked for a time at a brokerage house before returning to school. Upon getting my legal assistant certification from UCLA, I worked at a law firm in Los Angeles. Successful stock market investments allowed me, thankfully, to retire early and to pursue two dreams, writing and foreign travel, and I have since traveled extensively and frequently, twenty times or so, to Europe and counting.

I enjoy the cosmopolitan bustle, sidewalk cafes, the museums of Berlin, Rome, Vienna, London, Budapest, and Paris. Many of these capitals find their way into my stories of intrigue..."Murder Without Pity" (Paris), "The Killing Ploy" (London, Berlin, Paris, and Lugano) and the just released "Darkness and Blood" (London and Paris) and "Winston Churchill's Renegade Spy" (London and Zurich). I'm also researching for a fifth novel, this one to be set in 1946 Berlin.