Author's Comments
I began Vogel Flies South in a hotel room in Berlin in 1992. I wanted to write a novel that explored the power structures that I encountered while working in both the legal profession and government. As I sat down to write, the character Paul Heinrich Vogel came to me - a pragmatist, an intellectual and a man keenly interested in and intensely aware of human nature and relationships. Much like the rest of us, he was a man looking for a little adventure, and like the Tarot's fool or the German hero Siegfried, naively began a journey that led to more adventure and self-discovery than he ever would have hoped to experience.
Publisher's Comments
Vogel Flies South is more than a suspense novel. It is one of the first novels to deal with the political and social issues and pressures that arose with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Keith Harvey's ability to do this in such a poetic and philosophical way only makes the novel more intriguing. A highly intellectual story, Harvey expertly and metaphorically explores the political relationships of the United States and Germany as well as of the old Cold-War leaders and their post-Cold War counterparts, while simultaneously writing an incredible tale of suspense, adventure and romance.
Harvey clearly has a keen understanding of human behavior and relationships, and his ability to articulate such things with the written word is laudable. Furthermore, his familiarity with European culture and the cities about which he writes adds to the depth and enjoyment of this book. No detail is excluded, and readers will undoubtedly find themselves able to vividly imagine the people and locations included in this evocative story.