
The Collapse Trilogy. The Wall
by Ian Siragher

Fourteen goddamn eggs. That was all the Stasi needed to coerce Margot into service as a spitzel, an informant in 1981 Dresden. A month later, her Stasi handler directs her to inform on her best friend’s family. Husband Emil’s plan: take both families to the West through Czechoslovakia while Margot tells the Stasi the route is through Berlin. Four adults, three small children in a stolen van, traversing Europe’s thickest forests, one step ahead of Czech cops and border troops.