Raised in East Berlin, Felix Neumann traded sport for electronics. Recruited into the Stasi after military service, he grew disgusted by their brutality, sold secrets to the West and defected. In the West he reinvented himself as a technical fixer for Europe’s criminal underworld. Analytical, cautious, and articulate, he prefers solitude and precision. He swore a pacifist vow to atone for past sins but retained lethal training—breaking his vow to punish a gangster and later standing rouge spies.