Potsdam Station

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A complex edge of the seat thriller - think Robert Harris and Fatherland mixed with a dash of Le Carre - that's "a brilliant evocation of Nazi Germany"*.  This is the fourth and book in the author's sequence of books that spans World War Two.  Potsdam Station is an incredibly intense thriller which successfully takes you right into the action as well as evoking the time - 1945 - and place - Moscow and Berlin - so well that you feel you're right there with the key protagonists, John Russell and his girlfriend Effi Koenen. 

* from CJ Sansom

To read the Station titles in order:

Zoo Station

Silesian Station

Stettin Station

Potsdam Station

Lehrter Station

Masaryk Station

About Potsdam Station

In April 1945, Hitler's Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth. John Russell's son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets' final onslaught. In Berlin, Russell's girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from Germany. With a Jewish orphan to care for, she's trying to outlast the Nazis. Russell hasn't heard from either of them since fleeing Germany in 1941. He is desperate to find out if they're alive and to protect them from the advancing Red Army. He flies to Moscow, seeking permission to enter Berlin with the Red Army as a journalist, but when the Soviet's arrest him as a spy, things look bleak-until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into Berlin behind German lines.

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