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 david downing novelist
david downing

david downing is a contemporary british author of mystery novels and nonfiction .
his works have been reviewed by publishers weekly , the new york times , and the wall street journal .
he is known for his `` convincing '' depiction of world war ii and berlin , probably due to his studies and familiarity with the subject .
he has written a series of espionage thrillers , based around anglo-american character john russell exploring germany in the 1940s .
they are known as `` the station series '' because they are all named after train stations , mostly in berlin .
it concluded in june 2013 after six novels with `` masaryk station '' .
`` jack of spies '' , the first novel in a new series set before , during and after world war i , will be published in september 2013 .
his contributions to the studies of world war ii history have appeared in both historical nonfiction and fictional thrillers .
his studies mainly examine the events that decided `` the fate of germany and japan '' toward the end of the war .
he wrote a counterfactual history of the second world war , `` the moscow option '' .
he has also been known to write under the pseudonym david monnery and also wrote `` an atlas of territorial and border disputes '' -lrb- 1980 , new english library , isbn 0-450-04804-7 -rrb- .
in the 1970s , downing contributed to the music magazine `` let it rock '' and published a study of utopian and science fiction explorations of the future in music , `` future rock '' , analysing the work of bob dylan , david bowie , pink floyd and others .
