The Arms Maker of Berlin

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2009 by Dan Fesperman

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harvard University Press and the Trustees of Amherst College for permission to reprint “Forbidden fruit a flavor has,” an excerpt from “He ate and drank the precious words,” “Mine enemy is grown old,” and “The past is such a curious creature” from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press and the Trustees of Amherst College.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fesperman, Dan, [date]

The arms maker of Berlin / by Dan Fesperman. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-27228-7

1. History teachers—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Archival resources—

Fiction. 3. Weisse Rose (Resistance group)—Fiction. 4. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,

1906–1945—Fiction. 5. Code and cipher stories. I. Title.

PS3556.E778A89 2009

813′.54—dc22 2009003802

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

v3.0