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David Downing
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"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. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking him to undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf--assessing the strains between different sections of the German Communist Party--and that Shchepkin's own bosses in Moscow want him to accept...
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 1
Language
English
Description
When an American journalist living in 1939 Germany agrees to write articles for the Soviets, he gets dragged into dangerous activities and is sought by warring factions when British and Nazi intelligence discover his actions.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 loyalties--a paradise for spies. Meanwhile, Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot Jack McColl--Caitlin's ex-lover--had foiled. The war is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1953. It has been five years since British journalist John Russell struck a deal with a high-ranking Soviet official, relieving Russell of his duty as double-agent for Soviet and American intelligence. Now Russell lives a life of relative comfort in Los Angeles alongside his wife, Effi, a star on an American sitcom, and their adopted daughter, Rosa, a young artist on the cusp of adulthood. He has just begun work on a book investigating...
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Trapped in Berlin in the darkest days of 1945, British journalist John Russell, his girlfriend, and his son struggle to survive as the Third Reich collapses around them.
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack McColl novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final installment of David Downing's spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins.
Author
Series
Jack McColl novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Autumn 1917: As a generation of Europe's young men perish on the Eastern and Western fronts, British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission deep in the heart of Central Asia, where German influence is strong and where he'll be in completely unfamiliar territory. Despite his uncanny ear for foreign languages, there is much he doesn't know about the cities he's to infiltrate, or the people he's to meet there. As he quickly realizes, the mission...
12) Stettin station
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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 Effi with him?
14) Wedding station
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1933. The world is not yet at war, but the influence of the Nazi party is spreading like wildfire through Berlin. The prequel to the bestselling Station series introduces us to John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power. The Reichstag parliament building has burned down, just four weeks after Hitler's appointment as German Chancellor. The torching will be used to justify...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the last days before Armageddon, a brutal dictator rules the Earth. Through a sophisticated chip implant, the community Police Force infiltrates every facet of human existence. Two political prisoners meet a mysterious stranger who holds the key to their escape and mankind's survival. These three must escape, thwart a manhunt by elite CPF operative and join forces with the world's most wanted fugitive. If they fail, humanity will be marked for...
