Zoo Station (John Russell book #1)

Zoo Station (John Russell book 1) by David Downing

305 Pages

Publisher: Soho Crime, Soho Press

Release Date: May 28, 2013

Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, World War II, Germany, Espionage

John Russell is a journalist living in Berlin in 1939. It is the beginning of Hitler’s reign of terror. The Jews are being persecuted and their businesses taken away. Their only hope is to get a visa and leave the country. Russell is friends of a Jewish doctor and his family. When the doctor is taken to a camp and dies mysteriously, Russell gets involved. Things get heated when the Soviets get involved.

The story has a fast pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. The story is not only one of the Jewish family, or from a journalist’s point of view. It also includes espionage, and family relationships. If you like historical fiction around this time, you will enjoy this one.