Berlin - no dust jacket Author:Pierre Frei Pierre Frei adopts the approach taken by Graham Greene in The Third Man, using a postwar setting made more difficult by divided military occupation. Berlin struggles to adapt to the uneasy peace. Rapacious victors possess the place physically (the Russians, with their policy of looting and rape) or by psychological means (the Americans with thei... more »r superior rations and subtle fraternisation), resulting in colonisation of the German subconscious. The story is of blonde German women who are are singled out for sexual attack and murder in the American Zone. The detective - a conveniently decent German - is hampered by disability (one leg) and having to defer to US authority. A jittery, feral sexuality adds to the foreboding of life under occupation.« less