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|summary=An elegantly told tale of house breaking, safe cracking and smuggling as an MI6 man tries to make his fortune in occupied Berlin.
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Do we really need another Cold War-era thriller? Especially one that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yes, if the thriller in question is John Lawton's new offering, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like a chant from a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany in the 1980s, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John 'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness to all of his female acquantancesacquaintances.
A life of petty crime seems to be his fate after spending his teenage war years learning his trade as a petty thief. When not honing his craft breaking into houses and cracking safes in London's more illustrious locales, Wilderness spends most of his waking hours reading, devouring everything his local library can push his way.
