The Fire Agent: A Novel

“Paced like a thriller, written like a dream.”—The Boston Globe

“A spy novel, a war story, a love story—brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all.”—Graham Yost, executive producer of The Americans and Slow Horses

An unforgettable, sweeping novel of espionage, love, and war that reframes our understanding of the first half of the twentieth century.

Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baer...