| Record Number |
852271 |
| ISBN |
9781906964580 (paperback) |
| Author |
Downing, David, 1946- author |
| Title |
Zoo station / David Downing. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Old Street, 2011. |
| ©2007 |
| Pagination etc. |
310 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
John Russell 1 |
| Contents note |
First published: 2007. |
| Summary Note |
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 remain in Germany to be near his girlfriend, beautiful actress Effi Koenen, and his son, Paul, from whose mother he's divorced. A mysterious Russian hires Russell to write a series of articles praising Nazi achievements, and though he finds this work odious, he figures out a way to make the job palatable by involving the British consulate and their chief intelligence officer. He's drawn increasingly deeper into the espionage web of not only the Russians and British but also the Germans. |
| Subject |
Russell, John (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| English -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction |
| Journalists -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction |
| Spies -- Recruiting -- Fiction |
| Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction |
| Spy fiction. |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Shelf Location |
F DOWN |
