Wedding Station, David Downing
Wedding Station, David Downing
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Wedding Station

Author: David Downing

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

February 27, 1933. In this stunning prequel to the John Russell espionage novels, the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin is set ablaze. It’s just a month after Hitler’s inauguration as Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazis use the
torching to justify a campaign of terror against their political opponents.

John Russell’s recent separation from his wife threatens his right to reside in Germany and any meaningful relationship with his six-year-old son, Paul. He has just secured work as a crime reporter for a Berlin newspaper, and the crimes
which he has to report—the gruesome murder of a rent boy, the hit-and-run death of a professional genealogist, the suspicious disappearance of a Nazi supporting celebrity fortune-teller—are increasingly entangled in the wider
nightmare engulfing Germany.

Each new investigation carries the risk of Russell’s falling foul of the authorities, at a time when the rule of law has completely vanished, and the Nazis are running scores of pop-up detention centers, complete with torture chambers, in every
corner of Berlin.

About David Downing

David Downing grew up in suburban London. He is the author of the Jack McColl novels, the thriller The Red Eagles, and six books in the John Russell espionage series, set in WWII Berlin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine

After 6 books, Downing decides to take all his loyal readers back to where it all begin, Berlin 1933 with the fire at the Reichstag Parliamentary building. It signaled the rise of the Nazi party, the beginning of the cleansing of Germany of Communists, Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and anyone else the......more

Goodreads review by Lou

David Downing has created a marvelous oeuvre of six espionage thrillers featuring Anglo-American journalist John Russell in the backdrop of Nazi Germany. They are collectively known as “The Station Series” with each novel being named after a train station, mostly in Berlin. The series concluded in 2......more