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**DOWNING,David Potsdam Station
London Old Street July 2010 1905847947 / 978-1905847945 First Trade Paperback only
Mike Ripley writes: "Set in Berlin in the (rabid) dog days of the Third Reich, this is the fourth in Downing’s impressive series of historical thrillers each named after a Berlin station, which follow the convoluted struggle for survival of Anglo-American journalist John Russell, a man torn in his private life as much as in his political leanings. As a foreign correspondent covering Europe’s descent into war and with a German wife and son, the left-leaning Russell was an obvious target for recruitment by the intelligence services of, well just about everybody, including Soviet Russia, America and even Nazi Germany. To complicate matters more, his marriage failed, his new girlfriend Effi is an actress (and one of Josef Goebbels’ rising stars of Nazi cinema) and his son Paul becomes an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth. The first three books in the series – Zoo Station, Silesian Station and Stettin Station – cover the period up to America joining the war. The new novel picks up in April 1945, after Russell and Effi have been separated for three years (he in America, she in hiding in Berlin) and Russell’s son Paul is now in the last line of Nazi defence as the Russians close in on Hitler’s besieged capital. In an audacious attempt to get into the city alongside the conquering Russians to find Effi and Paul, Russell uses his old Communist contacts, but finds himself being used by the NKVD in a desperate mission to enter Berlin before the Red Army to secure information which could prove vital to the Soviet atom bomb project and even if the mission is a success, Russell realises that he knows too much to be allowed to live. Potsdam Station is a tense, brilliantly researched thriller which does not gloss over the horrors of the war and its effect on ordinary human beings, with some memorable scenes and characters – the Hitler Youth conscripts clutching at any shred of hope even though the war is clearly lost and the heart-breaking story of one particular eight-year-old Jewish girl. On its own, Potsdam Station is an outstanding thriller; as a whole, David Downing’s ‘station’ series is a quite remarkable achievement."
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