The Pieces from Berlin (36 page)
MICHAEL PYE
THE PIECES FROM BERLIN
Novelist, historian, journalist, and broadcaster Michael Pye is the author of ten other books including
The Drowning
Room
and
Taking Lives
, soon to be a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie. He is currently raising from the dead the criminal king of the nineteenth century for a novel.
ALSO BY MICHAEL PYE
Taking Lives
The Drowning Room
Maximum City: The Biography of New York
FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 2004
Copyright © 2003 by Michael Pye
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Pye, Michael.
The pieces from Berlin / by Michael Pye.—1
st
American edition.
p. cm.
1. World War, 1939–1945—Germany—Berlin—Fiction.
2. British—Switzerland—Fiction. 3. Art treasures in war—Fiction.
4. Zurich (Switzerland)—Fiction. 5. Berlin (Germany)—Fiction.
6. Antique dealers—Fiction. 7. Art thefts—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6066.Y4 P94 2002
823’.914—dc21 2002020524
eISBN: 978-0-307-42918-6
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