CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

PART SEVEN: TAPE (1972–1974)

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE

CHAPTER FIFTY

PART EIGHT: YARD (1976–1983)

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE

CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR

PART NINE: BOMB (1984–1987)

CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

PART TEN: WALL (1988–1989)

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE

CHAPTER SIXTY

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE

CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO

EPILOGUE (November 4, 2008)

CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE

Acknowledgments

To all the freedom fighters,

especially Barbara

CAST OF CHARACTERS

American

DEWAR FAMILY

Cameron Dewar

Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister

Woody Dewar, his father

Bella Dewar, his mother

PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY

George Jakes

Jacky Jakes, his mother

Greg Peshkov, his father

Lev Peshkov, his grandfather

Marga, his grandmother

MARQUAND FAMILY

Verena Marquand

Percy Marquand, her father

Babe Lee, her mother

CIA

Florence Geary

Tony Savino

Tim Tedder, semiretired

Keith Dorset

OTHERS

Maria Summers

Joseph Hugo, FBI

Larry Mawhinney, Pentagon

Nelly Fordham, old flame of Greg Peshkov

Dennis Wilson, aide to Bobby Kennedy

Skip Dickerson, aide to Lyndon Johnson

Leopold “Lee” Montgomery, reporter

Herb Gould, television journalist on This Day

Suzy Cannon, gossip reporter

Frank Lindeman, television network owner

REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth U.S. president

Jackie, his wife

Bobby Kennedy, his brother

Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy

Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s press officer

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Lyndon B. Johnson, thirty-sixth U.S. president

Richard Nixon, thirty-seventh U.S. president

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth U.S. president

Ronald Reagan, fortieth U.S. president

George H. W. Bush, forty-first U.S. president

British

LECKWITH-WILLIAMS FAMILY

Dave Williams

Evie Williams, his sister

Daisy Williams, his mother

Lloyd Williams, M.P., his father

Eth Leckwith, Dave’s grandmother

MURRAY FAMILY

Jasper Murray

Anna Murray, his sister

Eva Murray, his mother

MUSICIANS IN THE GUARDSMEN AND PLUM NELLIE

Lenny, Dave Williams’s cousin

Lew, drummer

Buzz, bass player

Geoffrey, lead guitarist

OTHERS

Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz

Sam Cakebread, friend of Jasper Murray

Byron Chesterfield (real name Brian Chesnowitz), music agent

Hank Remington (real name Harry Riley), pop star

Eric Chapman, record company executive

German

FRANCK FAMILY

Rebecca Hoffmann

Carla Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive mother

Werner Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive father

Walli Franck, son of Carla

Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla

Maud von Ulrich, née Fitzherbert, Carla’s mother

Hans Hoffmann, Rebecca’s husband

OTHERS

Bernd Held, schoolteacher

Karolin Koontz, folksinger

Odo Vossler, clergyman

REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE

Walter Ulbricht, first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist)

Erich Honecker, Ulbricht’s successor

Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker

Polish

Stanislaw “Staz” Pawlak, army officer

Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar

Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist

REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE

Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver

Lech Wałesa, leader of the trade union Solidarity

General Jaruzelski, prime minister

Russian

DVORKIN-PESHKOV FAMILY

Tanya Dvorkin, journalist

Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tanya’s twin brother

Anya Dvorkin, their mother

Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather

Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother

Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle

Zoya, Volodya’s wife

Nina, Dimka’s girlfriend

OTHERS

Daniil Antonov, features editor at TASS

Pyotr Opotkin, features editor in chief

Vasili Yenkov, dissident

Natalya Smotrov, official in the Foreign Ministry

Nik Smotrov, Natalya’s husband