THE LILAC PEOPLE: A NOVEL

THE LILAC PEOPLE: A NOVEL"Reminiscent of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See . . . Heart stopping in its suspense and dramatic reveals." The Boston Globe A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies, all while protecting the ones he loves In 1932 Berlin, a trans man named Bertie and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlins thriving

and from the unseen (and sometimes virtual) matrix of everyday crime

whether to a visitor or a long-time resident

It gave the CIA a special standing in the conduct of US foreign relations

sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians

Haffenden was prepared to make a deal with the devil—the man who put “organized” into organized crime

The year is 1942

Adams amplified the Boston Massacre

reflections on character

winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterful and gripping account

activate alarms with light or sound

and spoke English with a slight foreign accent

No one else has put this story out there with this kind of expertise