{"product_id":"the-tunnel-beneath-the-wall-christian-hardinghaus-9798198948709","title":"The Tunnel Beneath the Wall: A Cold War Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo German dictatorships. One witness who refuses to forget. A tunnel dug for freedom - and for revenge.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin, May 1945. The Reich is collapsing. Sixteen-year-old Lotte Spillmann - daughter of a Jewish leather merchant murdered in Sachsenhausen - witnesses a fanatical Hitler Youth unit execute nine unarmed Soviet prisoners of war in the garden suburb of Staaken. Hours later, she finds one of the killers wounded in the rubble. A boy. Fifteen years old. She saves his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe will spend the rest of hers wishing she had not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin, August 1961. The Wall has just gone up - straight through Lotte's street. From the bay window of her old family house, she watches her husband Peter try to cross the newly sealed border to reach her. A guard on a watchtower raises his rifle and fires. Through her field glasses, Lotte recognizes the shooter's face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the West Berlin authorities quietly bury the investigation to avoid a diplomatic crisis, Lotte realizes the truth no one wants to admit: in divided Germany, some murderers are simply too useful to prosecute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo she stops waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether with her twin brothers, a tunnel-digging crew of West Berlin dropouts, an Italian guest worker with a secret of his own, and men from the other side with old scores to settle, she begins planning the impossible: to dig beneath one of the most dangerous borders in the world and bring the killer back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo stand trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the Stasi has infiltrated every cell of the resistance. And the deepest betrayal will not come from the East.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning four decades - from the ruins of 1945 to a Berlin courtroom in 1992, where Lotte will make a choice no court can make for her - \u003ci\u003eThe Tunnel Beneath the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched Cold War thriller about escape, betrayal, and the price of justice delayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by real Berlin tunnel escapes and the forgotten border history of Staaken - the only place in Germany where the Wall was already a reality ten years before 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelena Merriman's \u003ci\u003eTunnel 29\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKate Quinn's \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Code\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFerdinand von Schirach's \u003ci\u003eThe Collini Case\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMandy Robotham's \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Behind the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKatherine Reay's \u003ci\u003eThe Berlin Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA novel that asks the question Berlin never stopped asking: can a border, a law, or an order ever be more sacred than a human life?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian Hardinghaus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198948709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Christian Hardinghaus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173625700607,"sku":"9798198948709","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6a617a5-2c1d-479f-b2e3-af6bf04b79a9.jpg?v=1788955595","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tunnel-beneath-the-wall-christian-hardinghaus-9798198948709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}