The Amber Room by Adrian Levy

Author:Adrian Levy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780802718099
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2009-09-22T07:00:00+00:00

Paul Enke's book on the search for the Amber Room, published in 1986

'Stolz' throws the book on to the bed and turns back to look down on Kurfurstendamm. Bernsteinzimmer Report, published in 1986 by a man who might or might not have been a Stasi agent, is the most famous German book about the Amber Room mystery. But it is long out of print and this is the first copy we have actually seen.

Was Paul Enke part of the Stasi study group, we ask? 'Stolz' isn't listening. He's at the mirror, moulding his black felt beret back on his head. We flick through the book to see in the flyleaf a handwritten inscription: 'To my Comrade ['Stolz'], with thanks, Paul Enke.' You know the author, Paul Enke, we say? No response. Can we at least speak to Enke directly?

'Stolz' stifles a little laugh with a gloved hand, brushing the leather against his lips. I don't think so,' he murmurs. 'Enke's dead. Quite unexpected. A relatively young man. We were all very shocked. Bernsteinzimmer Report had only just been published.'

'Stolz' holds out his hand. 'Give. I need it back. Must go. Have to pick up my daughter from the airport.' And with a waft of cheap soap, he is gone although we have held the book just long enough to see the name of its editor, Giinter Wermusch, and the quote that begins Paul Enke's story, something he had taken from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 'Some of the splendour of the world has melted away through war and time.'

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