Lehrter Station - Brossura

David Downing

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1908699159 ISBN 13: 9781908699152

Casa editrice: Old Street Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

PENULTIMATE IN THE BESTSELLING STATION SERIES. November 1945. John Russell is walking home through the grey streets of postwar London when his old accomplice, Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin, falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin informs Russell that his masters in Moscow have decided it's time to pay them back for securing his safe passage from Russia in the last days of the war.
Russell must return to Berlin to spy on his former colleagues in the German Communist Party, reporting on any deviation from the Stalinist line. Worse, he is ordered to offer his services to the Americans -- in short, to become a double agent on Stalin's payroll.
But Russell knows too well how short the life expectancy of a double agent is. Together, he and Shchepkin, who has finally lost faith in the Soviet utopia, hatch a plan to gain their freedom.
The stakes are high, both for Russell and his girlfriend Effi, who has accompanied him to Berlin. In a world fuelled by paranoia and on the edge of a new, 'cold' war, they will need all their wits -- and some luck -- to survive.

*** OUT IN JUNE 2013: MASARYK STATION, STUNNING FINALE TO THE SIX-BOOK STATION SERIES ***

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Recensione:

'Remarkable ... Downing is one of the brightest lights in the shadowy world of historical spy fiction'
Birmingham Post

'Excellent ... Downing's strength is his fleshing out of the tense and often dangerous nature of everyday life in a totalitarian state
The Times

'An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany'
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'Stands with Alan Furst for detail and atmosphere'
DONALD JAMES

'Outstanding'
Publishers Weekly on Lehrter Station

'Think Robert Harris and Fatherland mixed with a dash of Le Carré
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'A wonderfully drawn spy novel . . . A very auspicious debut, with more to come'
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'Exciting and frightening all at once . . . It's got everything going for it'
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'An outstanding thriller . . . This series is a quite remarkable achievement'
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• Editore: Old Street Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908699159
• ISBN 13: 9781908699152
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352