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|title=The Girl in Berlin

|sort=Girl in Berlin

|publisher=Serpent's Tail

|date=May 2012

|website=http://www.elizabethwilson.net

|summary=A post war spy story set in the time when the nation was gripped by the Burgess /Mclean spy scandal. Stylish and well constructed, you have to cope with not knowing what's going on for much of the book - reading her two previous, slightly related books will undoubtedly help with the large cast here. Trust no-one.

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Set in 1950s 'Austerity Britain', with detour or two to Berlin, Elizabeth Wilson's ''The Girl in Berlin'' is a stylish tale of espionage with a backdrop of the disappearance of Maclean and Burgess in a world where no one knows who to trust. Jack McGovern works at Special Branch but when Colin Harris, a known member of the Communist Party returns to the UK, MI5's Miles Kingdom draws Jack into investigate his intentions. Add in the fact that the wife of one of Harris's friends, Dinah Wentworth, works part time at the Courtauld Institute of Art where Dr Anthony Blunt is the main man, neither Jack, nor the reader, knows who is working for whom.