David Downing

Set on the eve of the First World War, across oceans and continents, steamliners and cross-country trains, David Downing's complex and thrilling new espionage novel takes us all the way back to the dawn of that most fascinating of 20th century charactersthe spy.It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on...

In April 1945, Hitler's Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.John Russell's son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets' final onslaught. In Berlin,...

In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son, Paul, and his longtime girlfriend, Effi. Forced to work for both German and American Intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take...

Praise for David Downing: ';[Downing]'s excellent at building suspense . . . and shows a keen eye for describing people and places.'Sacramento Bee ';An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany on the eve of war, the smell of cruelty seeping through the clean modern surface.'C. J. Sansom, author of Sovereign Summer,...

A John Russell WWII ThrillerWWII has ended But the danger has just begun for a spy caught between political superpowers.Book 5 in the John Russell historical thriller series.Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him....

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyaltiesa paradise for spies. As spring unfolds, a Western withdrawal looks increasingly likely....