This largely autobiographical novel tells the escape attempt in Turkey, then the arrest, stay in the jails of the Stasi and the trial of Manfred Lenz (the alter ego of Klaus Kordon) and his wife. Separated from their children, they will not get their expulsion in West Germany where they will resume a new life. Between interrogations, Manfred pacing his cell, recalls the circumstances that led him there, from his birth in the Berlin World War II through his childhood in various orphanages in the GDR and his promising career in a VRP State company specializing in medical devices. Krokodil im Nacken is a book is truly exciting and is an outstanding history lesson of contemporary Germany, particularly the so-called "paradise of workers and peasants" grinding machine souls who literally sold for several decades, tens of thousands of his fellow citizens in the Western enemy brother to get rid of them and get the cheap currencies and commodities that the communist system was incapable of producing or buying. Thus, paradoxically, refractory helped maintain Erich Honecker and his clique in power until 1989.
