Dilsberg is a quiet historic village in Germany, and in 1973, it is the home of Max Watts, a journalist and antiwar activist. The US Army is so interested in Max that it taps his phone and intercepts his mail. Specialist Mike McDougal is a clerk in a military intelligence unit near Dilsberg. When he stumbles upon the wiretap transcripts of Max's conversations, he shoves them under his shirt and shows them to his visiting girlfriend Danielle. At night, in Danielle's tent, the two pore over the documents and discover a vast US Army surveillance operation targeting US and German peace activists. Mike turns over the classified documents to the journalist and soon the story hits the front page of the New York Times, causing an uproar in Germany. Then the army discovers Mike is the leak. In her memoir, Danielle Jaussaud uses the newspaper clippings, photographs and notes she collected during her stay in Germany to reconstruct the twists and turns of a year in which Mike fought a US Army intent on putting him in jail. A gripping and suspenseful personal account, The Dilsberg Engagement is a political thriller that illustrates government abuse of power, but it is also the story of two young people who discover who they are and test the depth of their relationship as they innocently take on the most powerful army in the world.