'Istanbul': A Twisted Tale Of Foreign Espionage
by NPR Staff
by Joseph Kanon
Hardcover, 404 pages | purchase
May 26, 2012
The big war is over, and the Cold War has just begun. Leon Bauer, an American tobacco man, wonders how to fit into this new world.
Bauer and his wife, Anna, a German Jew, made it to Istanbul just before World War II began. With his U.S. passport and fluency in German and Turkish, the tobacco man became useful to allied intelligence.
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