A Small Town in Germany is an exciting, compulsively readable and brilliantly plotted novel. Le Carr has shown once more that he can write this kind of book better than anyone else aroundand he has done so without repeating himself. The New York Times Book Review

In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missingand forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him.

Dispatched from the British Foreign Office to investigate, Alan Turner arrives in Bonn to find riots, protests, and a tenuous balance of power. As if there isnt enough pressure, the embassys head of Chancery, Rawley Bradfield, makes it clear he has no intentions of making Turners investigation an easy one.

As Turner peels back the layers of chaos and desperation swirling around Bonn and the British Embassy, and grows ever closer to understanding the missing Leo Harting, he begins to uncover a web of deceit and corruption that threatens to upend British interests in Western Europe.

A political ghost story, as author John le Carr himself put it, A Small Town in Germany marks the first of his works taking place outside the realm of George Smileys Circus. Examining both geopolitical and psychological tensionsand where the two intersectle Carr weaves yet another masterful spy thriller.