In what year did the Berlin Wall Fall ?
– An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage " , 2010 – based on a legend told in Berlin in the 1970s * John Marks , " The Wall " , 1999 NYT Review – an American spy defects to the East just hours before the Wall falls * Marcia Preston , " West of the Wall " ( published as " Trudy 's Promise " in North America ) , 2008 – Left behind in East Berlin , the heroine waits for news of her husband after he makes his escape over the Berlin Wall * Peter Schneider , " The Wall Jumper " , 1984 ( German : " Der Mauerspringer " , 1982 ) – the Wall plays a central role in this novel set in Berlin of the 1980s Music related to the Berlin Wall * " Holidays in the Sun " , a song by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols prominently mentions the wall , specifically singer Johnny Rotten 's fantasy of digging a tunnel under it .