In his debut effort, Tom Gabbay proves he has the espionage thriller chops with his novel The Berlin Conspiracy, centered around President John F. Kennedy’s historic visit to Berlin in 1963. Jack Teller is a former CIA operative who retired to a quiet South Florida community after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco. However, how much can a CIA agent, even a former one, really stay away? For Teller, the answer is “not very long,” when his former mentor and boss Sam Clay informs him of a high-ranking East German officer with important information who will only speak to Teller. With no choice but to go, Jack goes to Berlin and stumbles across a nefarious plot to assassinate the president, and worse still, it originated within the US Governement.