Joseph Kanon's Leaving Berlin leads welcome return to Cold War spy novels

By Ross Southernwood
Updated April 24 2015 - 4:08pm, first published 3:45pm
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
A technician mends the broken glass of a landing light at Tempelhof airport  as a Douglas C-54 Skymaster takes off during the Berlin Airlift, on April 25, 1949. Photo: H. William Tetlow/Keystone/Getty Images
A technician mends the broken glass of a landing light at Tempelhof airport as a Douglas C-54 Skymaster takes off during the Berlin Airlift, on April 25, 1949. Photo: H. William Tetlow/Keystone/Getty Images
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
A technician mends the broken glass of a landing light at Tempelhof airport  as a Douglas C-54 Skymaster takes off during the Berlin Airlift, on April 25, 1949. Photo: H. William Tetlow/Keystone/Getty Images
A technician mends the broken glass of a landing light at Tempelhof airport as a Douglas C-54 Skymaster takes off during the Berlin Airlift, on April 25, 1949. Photo: H. William Tetlow/Keystone/Getty Images
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
A technician mends the broken glass of a landing light at Tempelhof airport  as a Douglas C-54 Skymaster takes off during the Berlin Airlift, on April 25, 1949. Photo: H. William Tetlow/Keystone/Getty Images
A technician mends the broken glass of a landing light at Tempelhof airport as a Douglas C-54 Skymaster takes off during the Berlin Airlift, on April 25, 1949. Photo: H. William Tetlow/Keystone/Getty Images

LEAVING BERLIN
Joseph Kanon 
Simon & Schuster, $29.99