A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller: Silesian Station (Series #2) (Paperback)

from DeltaQueen50

Silesian Station by David Downing is the second book in his series about international journalist John Russell who is working for an American newspaper in 1939 Berlin. In this volume Russell is juggling his spying duties for 3 different countries in the month leading up to Hitler's invasion of Po...

from Eyejaybee

A very well crafted plot, set against the growing horrors of Germany in the summer of 1939. John Russell, relatively secure by virtue of his American passport, is still able to travel around Germany (when he can find sufficient reserves of petrol), and uses this latitude to investigate the disapp...

from Hanneri

This second book in the 'station' series by David Downing was just as riveting as the first one I read. These books are really more espionage than they are mystery or crime...and even then they are much more about the events that took place before start of WWI....and now into WWI. The main protag...

from tmph

This is good writing, good characters, and fascinating running around all over Germany, a tiny bit in the US, and Eastern Europe all right before Poland and the Phoney War of 1939. And, also, having the protagonist when not travelling everywhere, also zipping between the Gestapo HQ and the Soviet...

from Eyejaybee

A very well crafted plot, set against the growing horrors of Germany in the summer of 1939. John Russell, relatively secure by virtue of his American passport, is still able to travel around Germany (when he can find sufficient reserves of petrol), and uses this latitude to investigate the disapp...