The Waiting Time

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Celebrated for his "palm-sweating tension" *(The New York Times)* and "rare insight" *(The Plain Dealer),* Gerald Seymour defines spy fiction at its best. Now, in this chilling revenge mission and haunting love story, he floodlights the East German Stasi as a young female British army corporal seeks retribution for Cold War atrocities. One frozen night, Tracy Barnes witnesses the killing of her lover by the East German secret police. Years later, when the Wall has crumbled and old enemies have become new friends, Tracy encounters the murderer and plans to make him pay. But in a country still at war with itself, Tracy finds that she is being played as a pawn in a far bigger game reaching all the way to Moscow. At the height of the Cold War, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by East Germany's secret police. The witnesses are terrorized into silence, yet a decade later his young lover is determined to see a long-delayed victory for justice.-- (Source of description not identified) The politics of East Germany return to haunt Tracy Barnes, seeking revenge on the secret policeman who, years earlier, murdered her lover, as she finds herself drawn into a bigger and deadlier design of vengeance