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Tele-Star: Booth #3: A Berlin Wall Novel of Two Brothers, One Empty Grave, and the Calls at 02:13
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Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: M.K.Harrow
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Every night at 02:13, six phone booths rang on Kottbusser Damm. Only Booth #3 was supposed to ring.
1986, East Berlin. Seventeen-year-old Mika Richter works the night shift at his family's telephone shop, TELE-STAR. He logs every call in a ledger. Small, to save paper.
When a body is found frozen on the highway, identified as his older brother Thomas, the Richters bury a stranger and keep the secret. Because Thomas didn't drown trying to swim to the West. He became Michael and lived five years in Chicago.
For six years, a man called the Crier has paid one coin every night at 02:13 to hear his brother's voice on an answering machine.
Now the tape has been erased. The last voice is gone. And the empty grave at Plot 2:13 is still waiting.
TELE-STAR: Booth #3 is a haunting literary mystery about identity, guilt, and a family that kept one light on at 02:13 for anyone trying to come home.
For readers of The German House, All the Light We Cannot See, and The Shadow of the Wind.
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