When a plane explodes shortly after taking off from Europe, Casey Collins, a U.S. Foreign Service officer, believes her lover was on the plane, but when she arrives in Europe to uncover the truth, she is plunged into a world of fear and is accused of being the terrorist responsible for the bombing of the plane

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The author, an American philosophy professor, recounts the six years she spent living and teaching in Berlin, and describes Germany's attempts to come to terms with its past