The Waiting Time (Dead Ground)

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. On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on Est Germany's coastline, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime's secret police. The witnesses are terrorised into silence, but a British woman is present and hears the shot which ended her lover's life 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) On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on the Baltic coast off East Germany, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime's secret police. The witnesses are terrorized into silence. A decade later the man's lover sets out to attain justice