Spy Wonder.(Brandenburg Gate)(Brief article)(Book review)

Byline: Elissa Schappell

Henry Porter is a double agent, operating as he does as both Vanity's Fair's dashing British editor and the author of ripping-good literary spy thrillers. The winner of the 2005 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award (one can only imagine how fantastically menacing that must look on the mantel), his most recent tale, Brandenburg Gate (Atlantic Monthly Press), is set in East Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Communist government is growing desperate. Enter Dr. Rudi Rosenharte, an art historian whose days as a Stasi foreign agent are in his past, until they make him an …