Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Death in East Berlin | 2020 | Richard Wake | Buy |
| 2 | In the Shadow of the Wall | 2020 | Richard Wake | Buy |
The Peter Ritter series moves Richard Wake’s focus from World War II to the Cold War. The two books, both published in 2020, are set in divided Berlin, where the wall separates two worlds and the people caught between them.
A Death in East Berlin and In the Shadow of the Wall use the divided city as both setting and metaphor. Wake writes Berlin with the same specificity he brings to his wartime European cities, and the Cold War atmosphere of suspicion and surveillance provides a tense backdrop for Ritter’s story.