Books by David Downing
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review 1: I liked this book as it's slow pace allowed time for the story to build. if it had gone any faster I might not have liked the character so much or felt his pain. this is by no means a plodding story, there is action and a mystery and lots of hidden tension as the world builds up ...
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review 1: Like all of the David Downing John Russell books, this is a great read. In many ways this was the most tense so far - all of the characters were up in the air as the Russian army marches into Berlin at the end of WWII. Normally I pause after each of these books, but this one ki...
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review 1: All right, all right, I'm a sucker for any book about the Nazi era. John Russell is a quadruple spy, who passes information to the Germans, the Soviets, the British, and the Americans. In a sense, these books (there is a series whose titles are Underground stations on the Berlin ...
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review 1: This book is a good addition to Downing's John Russell series. It has plenty of suspense to tempt a reader to keep turning pages well beyond midnight. The one sustained impression it leaves with me is the awful realization that events like these actually destroyed countless real ...
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review 1: Downing's books end and make me look immediately for the next in the series, but I only have one in this series left. The previous book in the series, Stettin Station, ended with Pearl Harbor. I don't know if I am puzzled by or respect Downing's decision to skip the rest of the w...
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review 1: I have loved these books more increasingly as the series has progressed. The plot is complex but easy to follow and the morality of the actions taken by the characters are well examined ash engaging. I could only give a book 5 stars if it has some kind of profound effect on me>...
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review 1: I'm hooked on this series. The war is coming to a close and John Russell is anxious to get back into Berlin to find Effi and Paul. He goes to Moscow and offers help to the Russians and is parachuted iton the city. This is the story of his adventure and various scrapes with the Ge...
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review 1: Although I enjoyed Zoo Station, the first book in the John Russell WWII espionage series from David Downing, I still had a few minor qualms, but I found this follow-up to be a step in the right direction. Where Zoo Station sometimes felt a little convenient and at times heavy han...