The Lebensborn Boy

The long shadow of the Lebensborn … Long after the end of Hitler’s Reich, many are still traumatised by one of its projects – the chain of homes known as Lebensborn (wellspring of life) for unwanted children of German soldiers and women of the occupied countries. Now, in a Europe divided by the Cold War, the East German intelligence service, the Stasi, is using selected former Lebensborn inmates for its own sinister purposes. In this compelling narrative, inspired by real events, a group of people are caught up in a cruel conspiracy. From the Orwellian world of East Berlin, to the fetish clubs of Hamburg’s St Pauli district, and from the death traps of the East-West border to Denmark’s wind-blown Baltic islands, this many-layered story of deception, betrayal and love moves to a shattering climax, which only reaches its astonishing dénouement in the re-united Berlin of 1990. A gripping story of deception, espionage, espionage, betrayal and love. “George Orwell meets John le Carré!” – J. H. Brennan