num_pages: 336
description: The prequel to David Downings bestselling Station series introduces John Russell an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power.February 27 1933. In this stunning prequel to the John Russell espionage novels the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin is set ablaze. Its just a month after Hitlers inauguration as Chancellor of Germany and the Nazis use the torching to justify a campaign of terror against their political opponents. John Russells recent separation from his wife threatens his right to reside in Germany and any meaningful relationship with his six-year-old son Paul. He has just secured work as a crime reporter for a Berlin newspaper and the crimes which he has to reportthe gruesome murder of a rent boy the hit-and-run death of a professional genealogist the suspicious disappearance of a Nazi-supporting celebrity fortune-tellerare increasingly entangled in the wider nightmare engulfing Germany.Each new investigation carries the risk of Russells falling foul of the authorities at a time when the rule of law has completely vanished and the Nazis are running scores of pop-up detention centers complete with torture chambers in every corner of Berlin.
language: English
title: Wedding Station
publisher: Soho Crime