In August 1936, Nazi Germany is hosting the Olympic Games. Richard Denham is an English reporter, damaged by his war-torn past and recent divorce. Eleanor Emerson is a beautiful 23-year-old swimmer from New York, a senator’s daughter and nightclub singer whose rebellious streak gets her kicked off the US Olympic team en route to Europe. At a lavish reception hosted by Joseph Goebbels in Berlin, Eleanor and Richard meet, and their lives are set on a dangerous and unexpected course, as they find themselves caught in a lethal game between the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service.  Reporting from inside Germany, Denham’s anti-appeasement slant and criticism of Hitler’s regime are gaining him popularity in the US and Britain. However, his high profile also attracts the attention of Nazi leaders hoping to suppress bad publicity, especially during the Games. When a fellow reporter hints that he has connections back in Britain beyond the newswires, Denham, too, finds himself sucked into the intelligence game—and with him Eleanor. At stake: a mysterious dossier that threatens to expose the dark vacuum at the heart of the Third Reich.  Flight from Berlin is a fantastic historical thriller spanning two continents. David John seamlessly weaves together fact and fiction; supporting characters include William E. Dodd and his daughter Martha, Jesse Owens, Lou Zamperini, Paul Gallico, Hugo Eckener, Joseph Goebbels, and many more. Fast-paced, suspenseful, and exciting, Flight from Berlin is a tremendous piece of storytelling, with love, betrayal, courage and determined evil redolent of the early books of Ken Follett.