Wedding Station

Berlin, February 1933. John Russell watches the Reichstag burn, but it's no scoop, even for a crime reporter. Four weeks after Hitler's accession, brownshirt mobs stalk the streets and the press prints what the Party tells it. Russell, a former communist with a British passport, should be packing his bags, but while family ties bind him, his assignments draw him closer to the savage heart of the new regime - and the story that only ends one way. ‘A superb sequence of spy novels. tight, intelligent plots full of moral ambiguities and a cast of shadowy characters for whom deception is as natural as breathing. The atmosphere of espionage is wonderfully conveyed. ’ THE TIMES ‘An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany’ C. J. SANSOM ‘In the elite company of literary spy masters Alan Furst and Philip Kerr’ WASHINGTON POST