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11 Jan 2011Paperback
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November 1941. John Russell is living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi.
One of a dwindling handful of much-censored journalists, Russell finds himself pushed into serving as a point of contact between the anti-Nazi Abwehr and American intelligence. But his real work, as he now sees it, revolves around one crucial question — what fate awaits those Berliner Jews who are now being shipped to the East?
'An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany'
—C.J. Sansom
- 'A remarkable achievement . . . David Downing is one of the brightest lights in the shadowy world of historical spy fiction'
—Birmingham Post - 'Excellent . . . Downing's strength is his fleshing out of the tense and often dangerous nature of everyday life in a totalitarian state'
—The Times - 'Think Robert Harris and Fatherland mixed with a dash of Le Carré'
—Publishing News
David Downing is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Zoo Station, the first novel featuring Berlin-based journalist John Russell, was published by Old Street in 2007 and became a word-of-mouth bestseller. Six further ‘station’ novels ensued, covering the Nazis’ rise to power, the Second World War and its aftermath.