After several years Tim Mallon meets up with an old university chum, Boris Smirnov.
Boris has a girlfriend called Lena and Tim is puzzled yet intrigued by both the relationship between Boris and Lena. He is also intrigued by Lena. After all, Lena is a pretty and attractive young lady yet Boris treats her with contempt and humiliation, which doesn't seem to phase or perturb her in the slightest.
Boris suggests that Lena stays with Tim and, with some wariness, he agrees to the idea.
Over time they have an amiable relationship which, at least as Tim is concerned, develops into love.
Tim is puzzled that Lena is extremely reticent to talk about her past life. Does she have a secret that she doesn't want to reveal or to be revealed?
Suddenly their apparently idyllic relationship is brought to an abrupt end when Lena is kidnapped from Tim's own doorstep and she is taken back to Berlin.
Tim immediately departs for Berlin in an attempt to find and rescue her and to learn the truth about what has happened and the mystery surrounding Lena's life.
However, when Tim arrives in Berlin he finds that he is being drawn into a shadowy and mysterious world where nothing is quite what it seems and he quickly learns that outside forces are controlling the situation.
Who can Tim trust? Can he get himself out of the nightmare world that he has, somehow, fallen into?
It's a very readable mystery and will appeal to people still interested in the sometimes fraught relationships between West and East Germany only several years ago.
It's published by Matador at £8.99.
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