Kriemhild's Revenge Author:Duncan Smith The novel tells the story of a woman and a man, both caught up in the machinations of the Cold War in East and West Germany. It is a story of dedication, to an ideal by the East German policeman who must investigate the murder of an American soldier within the strange no-man's-land which ran the entire length of the East German border with West... more » Germany. His investigation leads him into a tangle of international intrigue including a plot to unite West and East German forces against Soviet control of the world communist movement, and of US involvement in that plot. It also leads him into the personal lives of a high ranking East German security services official and his estranged wife, into the shadowy underworld of GDR officialdom, and into one woman's plot to avenge herself against the men, west or east, capitalist or communist, who dictate the terms under which women must live.« less