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David Baerwald

Biography

David Baerwald

David Baerwald is a songwriter, musician, performer and film composer who has collaborated with Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Sheryl Crow, Hans Zimmer and Baz Luhrmann. Baerwald spent a formative part of his childhood in Tokyo and Los Angeles, and currently lives in the Hudson Valley. THE FIRE AGENT is his first novel.

David Baerwald

Books by David Baerwald

by David Baerwald - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baerwald is a gifted linguist, talented musician and fearless idealist. When he’s recruited in 1900 to become a spy, his life becomes an extraordinary adventure spanning two continents, two world wars and impossible choices that will haunt him forever. From Frankfurt to Milan to Tokyo, Ernst moves through a world of intrigue and passion. He battles Japan’s Yakuza while entertaining its royalty and hosts Europe’s most brilliant performers. He falls deeply in love...with two women. He witnesses the rise of fascism in both Japan and Germany. And when the forces of fascism in Japan meet the horrors of Hitler’s Germany, this German Jew faces an impossible choice: destroy the country he loves most or become complicit in unimaginable evil.