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    The Other Side of the Curtain: Zebediah Smith & Shoushan Kariyan, #2
    The Other Side of the Curtain: Zebediah Smith & Shoushan Kariyan, #2
    The Other Side of the Curtain: Zebediah Smith & Shoushan Kariyan, #2
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    The Other Side of the Curtain: Zebediah Smith & Shoushan Kariyan, #2

    By Cora Buhlert

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    East Germany, 1966. Major Werner Gottwald has dedicated his life to Communism, keeping western visitors under constant surveillance as an agent of the secret police Stasi. His latest assignment is the American millionaire Zane Smith as well as Smith's lover, the beautiful Shoushan Kariyan. At first, it seems to be just another mission. But there is more to Zane Smith than meets the eye and soon Gottwald finds himself in over his head. For it turns out that he underestimated the deviousness of the Communist brethren of the KGB. And he definitely underestimated Shoushan Kariyan…

    This is a novelette of 8500 words or approx. 27 print pages.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Pulp Publishing
    Release dateJul 2, 2011
    ISBN9781498988520
    The Other Side of the Curtain: Zebediah Smith & Shoushan Kariyan, #2
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    Cora Buhlert

    Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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      The Other Side of the Curtain - Cora Buhlert

      The Other Side of the Curtain

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      I don’t know how you found me, Miss Smith. I’ve been keeping a low profile since it all went to hell back in ’89. From one day to the next, there wasn’t any demand for men like me anymore. Suddenly, we were the villains, even though we had only been doing what we thought was right. But all that didn’t matter anymore. I got off lightly, compared to some of my former colleagues. I lost my job, yes, but at least they didn’t lock me up. They even gave me modest pension and left me alone to live of the crumbs falling from the Capitalist table…

      But enough about me. You wanted to know about Shoushan Kariyan, whether I remember her. The Leipzig Expo, 1966. Of course, I remember. How could I ever forget?

      You look a lot like her, do you know?

      The Leipzig Expo was the biggest event of the year, not just for us but for all of East Germany. The Expo was a time when the iron curtain opened a crack wider than usual and things could slip through. In both directions. For us, naturally, it was also a time of heightened vigilance.

      They used to say that at Expo time you could not spit in Leipzig without hitting a Stasi agent. They were right. I should know. Because I was one of those agents, working for the Ministry of State Security, in charge of observing foreign visitors. Foreign meant Westerners, of course. Citizens from the Communist brother states were the responsibility of the office across the floor.

      When I was called in by my superior Colonel Pretzow a month before the Leipzig Expo, I already knew what was coming. I would receive my assignment. It was the same every year. I was assigned to one of the Western visitors to the Expo. I would then position my agents and microphones around them to make sure that they couldn’t even take a single step without us knowing about it.

      That year, my assignment was an American. A man called Smith with an unpronounceable first name. Industrialist, head of a large corporation, extremely rich. And a woman named Shoushan Kariyan, who was billed as his personal assistant. I knew what that meant, of course. She was Smith’s lover, pure and simple. Another example of how the Capitalists exploited the working class.

      At first, I was quite thrilled to get an American. A pleasant change from all those West Germans of previous years. Besides, it gave me the chance to show off my language skills.

      This assignment is of exceptional importance, Major Gottwald, Colonel Pretzow said before dismissing me, by special request of our brothers in the Soviet Union.

      By Our brothers in the Soviet Union

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