The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin

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In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman married to an East German must confront the truth behind her husband's mysterious disappearance when she learns he was a spy reporting to a counterintelligence officer known as the Matchmaker. As protests threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism falters, Anne Simpson, a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, believes she has a normal marriage. However, her husband vanishes, prompting the CIA and West German intelligence to visit her. Anne's life takes a shocking turn as she discovers she was targeted by the Matchmaker, who orchestrates a network of Stasi agents that marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to gather intelligence. With her husband presumed dead, the CIA is eager to find the Matchmaker due to his connections with the KGB, hoping he can reveal the truth about a high-ranking Soviet defector. Anne, the only person to have seen the Matchmaker's face from a photograph left by her husband, becomes crucial to the CIA's mission. As the Berlin Wall falls and chaos ensues, time is of the essence. But what if Anne's husband is still alive? And does she have her own reasons for seeking out the Matchmaker to exact a different kind of justice?