Eight Hours in Berlin

1963. As Professor Mortimer is invited to the USSR by an old archaeologist friend to join in the search for the lost city of Arkaim in the Urals, Captain Blake goes to Switzerland for an important conference between the intelligence services of the Western Powers, in order to prepare for the top-secret Operation Prince in Berlin. Berlin where a West German agent was just shot trying to cross the Wall back from East Germany, uttering a single word before dying: doppelgänger ...

José-Louis Bocquet is a journalist, essayist, novelist, publisher and scriptwriter for both television and comics. He’s worked several times before with Jean-Luc Fromental, another publisher, novelist and scriptwriter, equally prolific for cinema and TV as for bandes dessinées. AntoineAubin learned to read with Tintin and worked for publisher Hachette-Disney for many years, before being chosen by Dargaud to take over from René Sterne on Blake and Mortimer.