David Downing, Author . Soho $24 (306p) ISBN 978-1-56947-494-5
In Downing's quiet sequel to Zoo Station
, set mostly in Berlin in 1939, British journalist John Russell gets involved in multiple intrigues while working as an amateur spy for the intelligence services of assorted major powers. When Miriam...
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David Downing, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $18.22 (230p) ISBN 978-0-02-533380-2
It's 1944, World War II is in its final stages and Josef Stalin should be content; the incipient conquest of almost half of Europe will erect a virtually impregnable barrier around Russia. But the American development of the atomic bomb threatens to
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David Downing, Author . Soho $23 (293p) ISBN 978-1-56947-454-9
Set in pre-WWII Berlin, Downing's fine new thriller introduces a clever and honorable hero, British journalist John Russell, who has spent 15 years working in Germany. Despite finding the Nazis despicable and war inevitable, Russell wants to...
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David Downing, Author Da Capo $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-306-81620-8
Midway, Stalingrad, El Alamein: these great battles of 1942 are the conventional turning points of WWII. Downing (The Rise of Enemies
) advances the decisive events by a year, making a provocative case that the German failure to take Moscow, the...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-074-3
Set in late 1945, Downing’s outstanding fifth novel featuring Anglo-American journalist John Russell (after 2011’s Potsdam Station) centers on Russell’s efforts to fulfill his part of his deal with the devil that extricated his family from Berlin...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-604-2
The October Revolution of 1917 provides the backdrop for Downing’s outstanding third historical featuring British spy Jack McColl (after 2015’s One Man’s Flag). At his father’s funeral in Scotland, McColl reunites with his lover, American journalist
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-61695-606-6
Set in 1921, Downing’s fitting conclusion to his superior quartet of WWI-era spy thrillers (after 2017’s Lenin’s Roller Coaster) finds series lead Jack McColl behind bars after he punched a London police constable for insulting an injured war...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-61695-843-5
Downing (the John Russell series) has never been better than in this moving and elegiac thriller framed as a diary written by a German calling himself Josef Hofmann. In April 1938, Hofmann returns to his native country on behalf of the Communist...
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David Downing, Author . Soho $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-634-5
Fans of the intelligent WWII thrillers of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr should enjoy Downing's atmospheric and tension-filled third novel featuring Anglo-American journalist John Russell (after Silesian Station
). By November 1941, Russell has...
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David Downing, Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56947-917-9
Set in early 1945, Downing's gripping fourth novel featuring Anglo-American journalist John Russell (after Stettin Station) finds Russell in the Soviet Union. As the Russians approach Berlin, Russell devotes his energies to trying to reunite with...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-223-5
Downing's anticlimactic sixth and final John Russell thriller (after 2012's Lehrter Station) opens with a horrific scene: one night in the winter of 1948, two Russians abduct two German sisters and drive them to a grand house outside Berlin, where...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-268-6
British author Downing’s engaging if slow-moving first in a WWI-era spy series introduces Jack McColl, a globe-trotting Scottish car salesman moonlighting as a British agent. Months before August 1914, McColl is trying to sell his company’s luxury...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-61695-270-9
Downing’s meandering second WWI-era spy novel finds British agent Jack McColl and American newspaper woman Caitlyn Hanley, who were lovers in 2014’s Jack of Spies, now worlds apart. McColl is working for the Crown, assigned to undermine terrorists...
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David Downing. Soho Crime, $27.95 (408p) ISBN 978-1-64129-357-0
The sluggish eighth thriller in Downing’s Station series featuring journalist John Russell (after Wedding Station) sees the former spy and his wife, actor Effi Koenen, settling down in McCarthy-era Los Angeles after fleeing Europe with their adopted
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