T. H. E. Hill
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| Born | 1948 |
| Pen name | Thomas Heinrich Edward Hill, a.k.a. T.H.E. Hill |
| Occupation | Intelligence officer, author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Indiana University, DLIWC, USARI |
| Period | Cold War |
| Genre | Spy fiction |
| Notable works |
Voices Under Berlin The Day Before the Berlin Wall |
| Notable awards |
Hollywood Book Festival 2008 Voices Under Berlin |
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Thomas Heinrich Edward Hill, or T. H. E. Hill (born 1948), is a pseudonymous American novelist who writes mostly in the genre of spy fiction. His first novel was published when he was 60 years old, after a career that was spent in military intelligence.
Hill has three degrees from the West Coast branch of the Defense Language Institute. He is also an alumnus of The U.S. Army Russian Institute.
He served at United States Army Security Agency Field Station Berlin in the mid-1970s. His pen name is a reference to the Field Station Berlin operations site, which was referred to as "The Hill" by those who worked there. ("The Hill" was in fact a common appellation for SIGINT sites at other locations.)
Hill retired in 1993, following 26 years of combined uniformed and civilian service, 16 of it overseas.
Hill's first novel was Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary, published in 2008. It is a fictionalized story of the Berlin Spy Tunnel (Operation Gold, covername: PBJOINTLY). This was a COMINT, as opposed to a HUMINT operation, which makes the novel different from most spy fiction. Voices Under Berlin was an award winner at the Hollywood Book Festival in 2008. Since then it has garnered an additional five awards. Most recently, it was included in the Indie 500 Booklist for 2011.
Hill's second novel, The Day Before the Berlin Wall, is an alternate history of the lead-up to the construction of the Berlin Wall, based on a legend that was still being told in the mid-1970s, by U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Berlin. According to the legend, the U.S.A. had advance intelligence of the plans to build the wall. This information included the fact that the East-German engineer troops who were going to build it had been told to halt construction if the Americans were to take aggressive action to stop them. This novel has so far won two awards, the most recent being the Stars & Flags Book Award for Historical Fiction.
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