CHAPTER NINETEEN
The day after the farewell party, you go to the hairdressers and then to the camera shop on Schloss Lane to get your photo taken. When you return to the apartment on Shakespeare Street in the early evening the Stasi are waiting for you.
You sense them as soon as you open the door. Instinct takes over. You turn and flee, thundering down the stairs where you bang into two officers who must have been hiding in the stairwell.
“Stop! State Security!” one of them shouts.
So this is what they look like – the grey men from the State Security who everyone is so afraid of. The older officer wears tinted glasses and has the yellowed skin of a chain smoker. The younger man is thick-set with a big face and ears like cauliflowers.
In your apartment, Hencke is standing by the booksh
