Post-war Europe and the moral compromises of intelligence work provide the setting for Joseph Kanon’s espionage fiction. Los Alamos follows an intelligence officer investigating a murder inside the secret atomic-bomb project, while The Good German places a former American correspondent in ruined Berlin amid black markets, war crimes and competing occupying powers. Istanbul Passage turns to neutral Turkey and the dangerous movement of people and information after the war, and Leaving Berlin follows an émigré writer returning to Soviet-controlled Germany. Kanon’s prose is measured, atmospheric and morally ambiguous rather than action-heavy. The strongest shelf associations are historical espionage, Cold War fiction and post-war political thrillers for readers of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr. Read more Less
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