A rare look into the inner workings of a data-driven surveillance state run by one of the most feared secret police forces the world has ever known— East Germany’s Stasi. THE SPIES AMONG US is a personal investigation into family secrets by Peter Keup, a Stasi victim-turned-historian that takes a turn after he contacts the men who ran the system. These are the first conversations of their kind between Stasi officers and a victim. Through these meetings, a terrifying mosaic is built of the lengths to which people go to maintain power in a dictatorship, as well as the indomitable human spirit that seeks truth and self-determination.