The Waiting Time

On a winters night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on East Germanys coastline, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regimes secret police. The witnesses are terrorised into silence. But a British woman is present and hears the shot which ended her lovers life.A decade later, times have changed, and old enemies have become new friends. An ex-Captain in the Stasis Counter Espionage section, Dieter Krause is an honoured guest at the headquarters of the British Military Intelligence. He is confident that the skeletons in his past are hidden until...Corporal Tracy Barnes, a clerk, attacks him in the officers mess. She was there at the scene of the young mans murder ten years before. She knows Krause is responsible. But she cant prove it - she needs the witnesses to talk. To make them do so, she must follow Krause to Germany. For her, the waiting time is finally over...

Categories: Young Adult (YA)