A Small Town in Germany — John Le Carre

A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the Britisl Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above

It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way ii Brussels, the timing could not be worse--and that's probably not an accident.

Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and file as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence.