The year is 1961. Angela Wettin is an American heiress working to aid German refugees in West Berlin. Seminarian Michael Dieterich lives in East Berlin. His adopted younger brother, Joseph Werner, a black marketer, works both sides of Berlin. All are in their early 20s.
“The Devil’s Spies,” a thriller by K.C. Sivils opens in Berlin. It is an international flash point. Thousands trying to escape communism leave Soviet-dominated Europe through the then-open border between East and West Berlin. Most are East Germans, but people from many Warsaw Pact nations cross to freedom through Berlin.
