In "House of a Thousand Eyes," a short story anthologized in Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War, it is 1961 East Berlin and nineteen year old Conrad Schumann is working as an East German border guard, when a family friend uses the underhanded gift of a bicycle to lure him into becoming an informer for the secret police, the Stasi.
Edited by Jeffrey Deaver & Raymond Benson
and presented by Mystery Writers of America
“There are layers upon layers of paranoia here, as well as a hero or two...and worthy stories, including “Police Report” by the absent-for-too-long Joseph Finder, Gayle Lynds collaborating with John C. Sheldon on “A Card for Mother” (Gayle, you have been MIA for too long as well), and riveting tales from Katherine Neville, Sara Paretsky, Katia Lief and Bev Vincent, among others. The stories are not long, but run deep and are memorable, particularly for those of us who remember the dawn of that cold conflict.”