Patrick T. Leahy

The Knife-Edge Path takes place in Berlin near the end of the war. People are hungry and in many cases without hope and will do whatever needs to be done to stay alive. Geli Straub is living in Berlin, waiting to hear from her husband who she hasn't heard from since the siege of Leningrad. Her food rations have been cut off and she is desperate to stay alive. A neighbor, who is an SS officer, asks her to spy on another SS officer after he finds out that she had been a spy earlier in the war. Even though she doesn't want to get back into that life, she really has no choice if she wants to stay alive. She goes back to her identity as a French woman who was in Berlin when the war broke out. But nothing and no one are what they seem to be and that's when this historical fiction become a spy novel, too.

I thought that this was a well-written, well researched novel with some interesting characters. I found Geli to be a very interesting main character who was willing to do whatever needed to be done to guarantee her survival.… (meer)