Welcome to West Berlin

About the Book

Welcome to West Berlin offers an insider’s view of the mid-1950s spy activities that besieged that devastated city. The novel traces the lives of people caught on both sides of the ideological divide, revealing in the process the absurd game of intelligence-gathering played by the opposing Cold War nations. Not the customary spy story, the plot twists and turns through sixteen days of escalating adventure and intrigue, love and lust. Peopled with a grab-bag of amateurs and misfits, champions and martyrs, this work explores the consequences of amoral decisions that exploit the human condition and both make and destroy lives.

About the Author

Herbert M. Lobl was born in Vienna, Austria. He was educated at Harvard College, the University of Bonn in Germany on a Fulbright grant and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. After serving as assistant counsel to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, he became a partner in the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell and, until his retirement, served in the firm’s Paris Office for nearly thirty years. He has taught at Columbia Law School and is the author of two previous novels. He now lives with his wife in Westchester County.