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Having jumped backward, the author suddenly leaps ahead. It is now 1980, and Jake is an English professor in Boston, still maimed by the events of two decades earlier: "McKay had once regarded it as the central task of his life to understand what had destroyed his family. Yet he had not directly addressed that question in twenty years." On cue, Magda Dettke, the infant from Berlin, appears in his office. Her mother, the woman Jake had seen in the museum 20 years ago, is dead. Magda now works for British intelligence, and she has startling news. Giles wants...
...course Jake goes with Magda to Berlin and finds himself in far greater peril than he had imagined. But his rite of passage is not only the literal trek from East back to West but the psychological journey toward true maturity. Experiencing the sense of danger that his father must have felt so often during his exploits, Jake comes face to face with the enemy: "I have blamed the world, my father, mother, uncle, and wife for all my weaknesses. I have wallowed in self-pity." It is time, he decides, to enter the free world...
...Jake and Magda were standing, faces into the wind, on a high wooden platform overlooking that gash. It was nearly dark now. The platform, sturdy and unornamented, was almost two stories high and built like a gallows at the spot just beyond the Tiergarten where Bellevuestrasse achieved its dead end in the Wall. From where they stood, they could see the center of East Berlin. Lights were on in all the buildings, but it was the brilliantly illuminated armed wasteland immediately in front that held their attention...
...have been disappointed,' Jake said after -a long silence, 'if it wasn't hideous...
After third baseman Mike Kreuger popped to Gaylord Lyman at third, Brown walked right fielder Jake Hart on a pitch that didn't miss by much, scoring a run. When the count went to 2-0 on the next batter, Tom Snarsky, Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian had seen enough...