The Berlin Conspiracy (2006)

by Tom Gabbay

Series: Jack Teller (1)

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Jack Teller is through with the CIA--until the Berlin station is contacted by a Colonel in the East German Stasi just days before President John F. Kennedy's scheduled visit to the Wall. The Stasi officer has an important message--and he will speak to no one but Jack. The informant claims a treacherous plot is brewing to assassinate the American president in Germany--a conspiracy originating at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Only Jack Teller believes the threat is real, and it has left him alienated and alone in a divided city that holds too many dark secrets. And if he forgets the two essential truths of the espionage game--that lies are currency and nothing is what it seems--he won't live to prevent a global catastrophe.… (more)

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Jack Teller was born in Germany. His father died in WWI. His mother died when he was young. He left his little brother with his aunt and he went to the US. He is recruited by the CIA as an operator in the South America desk. In his later years he works on the invasion of Bay of Pigs. Frustration mount up to retirement and he goes to live in Florida. After years in retirment he is called into service and sent to Berlin where he discovers a plot to kill President Kennedy. The plot is planned out by a Cuban exile in cohutts with top CIA members. He meets his brother who is a Colonel in the STASI and who is providing him the information about the plot. After a seires of events he is captured by the CIA and is going to be the scapegoat in taking the fall for killing the president.

This is a good read for anyone interested in Berlin during the Cold War years. (

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Jack Teller is through with the CIA--until the Berlin station is contacted by a Colonel in the East German Stasi just days before President John F. Kennedy's scheduled visit to the Wall. The Stasi officer has an important message--and he will speak to no one but Jack. The informant claims a treacherous plot is brewing to assassinate the American president in Germany--a conspiracy originating at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Only Jack Teller believes the threat is real, and it has left him alienated and alone in a divided city that holds too many dark secrets. And if he forgets the two essential truths of the espionage game--that lies are currency and nothing is what it seems--he won't live to prevent a global catastrophe.

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