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| Author | Sarah Gainham |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Arthur Barker |
Publication date | 1957 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Cold Dark Night is a 1957 spy thriller novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham. [1] Her second novel, it is set at the height of the Cold War when the 1954 Berlin Conference saw the Big Four foreign ministers arrive in the divided city. [2] Gainham had worked in Berlin as a journalist at the time of the Conference.
Joe Purdey, an American journalist in Berlin to cover the conference encounters Gisela Schill, a refugee from East Germany whose husband has gone missing while working for British intelligence behind the Iron Curtain. He is drawn into the world of subterfuge and low-level spying taking place in the city. The novel concludes with a face-off between British and Soviet forces at the Anhalter Bahnhof, a ruined railway terminus on the border between the two zones.
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