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Lobl, Herbert Max was born on January 10, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Walter Leo and Minnie (Neumann) Lobl.
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Welcome to West Berlin offers an insider’s view of the mid-1950s spy activities that besieged that devastated city. The novel traces the lives of people caught on both sides of the ideological divide, revealing in the process the absurd game of intelligence-gathering played by the opposing Cold War nations. Not the customary spy story, the plot twists and turns through sixteen days of escalating adventure and intrigue, love and lust. Peopled with a grab-bag of amateurs and misfits, champions and martyrs, this work explores the consequences of amoral decisions that exploit the human condition and both make and destroy lives.
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Two cities form the background for the story line - the divided, spy-infested Berlin of the 1950s and its tragic consequences in the reunited, but far from pacified, Berlin of the 1990s. In 1999 Manfred is a cabaret performer and member of a militant terrorist group with an obsessive mission to avenge his familyʼs downfall. His determined and multiple efforts to kill members of an American Intelligence unit he holds responsible for his familyʼs tragic fate drive the plot. Three members of that unit now find themselves back in Berlin, with their former American espionage activities having had a contrasting effect on each of their lives. One is a gentle, retired Holocaust survivor who painfully regrets his indirect part in Manfredʼs fatherʼs ruin. A second one, a cowardly sensuous coward, has no remorse regarding his past activities and only wishes to continue, undisturbed, his libidinous Berlin life. The third, the former commander of the Intelligence unit, has long lived a quiet life in suburban New York before being rudely plunged back into his espionage past. All three are Manfredʼs targets. In quick succession, two of them die under mysterious circumstances, and the third is the imminent target of an assassination plot. But is Manfred responsible? The mystery unfolds against the backdrop of a reunited Berlin, with its dangerous underworld and erotic nightlife. Investigations by the German police, the Berlin press and the American authorities reveal a linkage between a rash of current attacks on Americans and outdated Cold War resentments. A clever and scheming young bar girl, an aging madam with terrorism contacts, a bewildered police commissioner, a tenacious investigative reporter, an anxious German spouse of a former Intelligence officer, and the commander of a militant terrorist group round out the cast of characters.
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The scene shifts between Paris and Springdale, a small Ohio mill town where AmCos, the manufacturer of the after-shave lotion Macho is located. Harrison "Hal" Hammond, the ambitious CEO of AmCos, has decided to acquire Saint-R¿my, the upscale French produ
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Lobl, Herbert Max was born on January 10, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Walter Leo and Minnie (Neumann) Lobl.
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1953. Bachelor of Laws cum laude, Harvard University, 1959. Avocat honoraire, Harvard University, 1993.
Associate Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, 1959-1990, New York City and Paris, 1963-1969, partner, 1969-1992, senior counsel, since 1993. Associate counsel to Governor Nelson Rockefeller Albany, New York, 1960-1962. Lecturer law Columbia University, New York City, 1993—1995.
Member supervisory board CII-HB Internationale, Amsterdam, 1977—1982. Served to 1st lieutenant United States Air Force, 1954-1956.
(Two cities form the background for the story line - the d...)
(The scene shifts between Paris and Springdale, a small Oh...)
(Welcome to West Berlin offers an insider’s view of the mi...)
Author: Welcome to West Berlin, 2002, A Tender Offer, 2004, A Reckoning in Berlin, 2009.
Governor American Hospital Paris, 1981-1983, 88-93. Board trustees American Library., Paris, 1969-1981, Nantucket (Massachusetts) Cottage Hospital, 1996-1999, director Nantucket Arts Council, 2000-2002. Member of American Chamber of Commerce (board directors France 1988-1990), Harvard Club, University Club.
Married Dorothy Fullerton Hubbard, September 12, 1960. Children: Peter Walter, Michelle Alexandra.