Lehrter Station
A John Russell WW II Novel, Book 5
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Narrateur(s):
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Simon Vance
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Auteur(s):
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David Downing
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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 the task and pass his findings on to them. He adds that refusal will put Russell's livelihood and life at risk, but that once he has accepted it, he'll find himself even further entangled in the Soviet net. It's a lose-lose situation.
Shchepkin admits that his own survival now depends on his ability to utilize Russell. The only way out for the two of them is to make a deal with the Americans. If they can come up with something the Americans want or need badly enough, then perhaps Russell will be forgiven for handing German atomic secrets over to Moscow, and Shchepkin might be offered the sort of sanctuary that also safeguards the lives of his wife and daughter in Moscow. Every decision Russell makes now is a dangerous one.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- HRPuff&Stuff
- 2023-01-04
An excellent cold war spy novel well read post-WW2
In a rating of the best spy 150 novels on-line, David Downing was rated highly, so it was a great surprise to see Lehrter Station as a Catalogue Plus read for annual membership. This particular book can be listened to without much in the past knowledge of characters who were mostly Germans caught in a spy game between the Soviets and Nazis. This book starts with the main couple returning to Berlin just after WW2 with the city just starting to be divided in sectors through still permitting free movement. It has a wonderful description of Berlin and the political situation just before the Cold War really got started. Very well read and wonderfully written. I will be purchasing some of the others in the coming year.
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