BERLIN 1941: THE THIRD INSTALMENT OF DAVID DOWNING'S ACCLAIMED WORLD WAR II SPY SERIES It is November 1941. John Russell is still living in Berlin, still enabled to stay by the American passport inherited from his mother, and still tied to the increasingly dangerous city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. Now one of a small and dwindling handful of permitted and much-censored American journalists, Russell has begun to help the anti-Nazi Abwehr. At the same time, a combination of necessity and conscience push him into working for both the American and Soviet espionage services. But his real work, as he now sees it, is to answer one crucial question ? what is actually happening in the East, to both the local population and the Jews who are now being shipped in that direction? And his mission is, eventually, to get the answer out to the wider world. As Russell and Effi come closer to the truth and tread ever more dangerously in the shadow of the Nazis, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour and America enters the war. Soon Russell is a wanted, and hunted, man. Can he escape? And what will happen to Effi? And to Paul? Praise for Stettin Station: ?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 WINTER IN MADRID ?A wonderfully drawn spy novel. [An] auspicious début, with more to come' BOOKSELLER THE AUTHOR David Downing is the author of a political thriller, two alternative histories and a number of books on military and political history and other subjects as diverse as Neil Young and Russian football. SELLING POINTS ?Third instalment of the successful ?station' series, with a growing and loyal fanbase ?Strong evidence of word of mouth sales, previous book still selling through. ?Picking up media attention cf Julie Walters ?Daily Mail feature confirmed by Peter Hitchens
