Audio Book Description:
By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver,failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that wasin the good old Cold War days, when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and theenemy was easy to recognize. Today, Mundy is a down at the heelstour guide in southern Germany,dodging creditors, supporting anew family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning theactions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before,in the shape of an old Germanstudent friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant universitylecturer, Sashahas yet again discoveredthe true, the only, answer to life thistime in the form of a mysterious billio-naire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, andwith it their chance to chage aworld that both believe is going to the devil.Or will they?
