Operation Oskar, Herzberg - B

                 While his superiors are trying to decide if Lt. Reim has any responsibility for his boss's death, he is assigned to a really unpleasant undercover operation. He goes to work in the garbage dump where West Berlin drivers take capitalism's refuse and provide the east with hard currency. There's bit of black market activity, but not enough to merit a deep dive by the Stasi. Nonetheless, Reim's boss, Maj. Blecher is interested and wishes to pursue the investigation. Unfortunately for Blecher, Oskar is working for the KGB and Blecher's command is terminated with extreme prejudice. These books aren't very good, but they are written by a German who actually worked as an archivist for the Stasi, depict Berlin with extraordinary specificity, and set forth the ludicrousness of the paranoia that ruled East Germany with a deft touch.