I am 75 years old and a retired book professional with nearly forty years of book selling for publishers, as a retailer and for a book wholesaler. Most recently, I have been a volunteer at a regional writers’ association and written book reviews. My wife and I completed a two week visit to five cities in …
I am 75 years old and a retired book professional with nearly forty years of book selling for publishers, as a retailer and for a book wholesaler. Most recently, I have been a volunteer at a regional writers’ association and written book reviews. My wife and I completed a two week visit to five cities in …
A TRAVEL FEATURE BY JIM HARRIS I am 75 years old and a retired book professional with nearly forty years of book selling for publishers, as a retailer and for a book wholesaler. Most recently, I have been a volunteer at a regional writers’ association and written book reviews. My wife and I completed a two …
I came across this fine spy-thriller/murder mystery during the summer of 2015. Author Stan Morse is an attorney living in central Washington State. Goering’s Gold bounces back and forth from the 1930’s to 2002 and beyond. The cover photo shows heavy duty pipes with Nazi Swastikas embossed on them. This part of the story is real. …
David Downing is a superstar writer of WWII spy fiction. I have already read and reviewed Zoo Station, the first book in the John Russell series. I recently finished book 2, Silesian Station. Time wise, it follows book 1 by a few weeks. It is early summer 1939. John and his 12-year-old son are returning to Germany …
I have read two previous John Wells’ thrillers, #2 and #5 in the series. Now I understand the series a whole lot better having just read #1, The Faithful Spy by New York Times writer Alex Berenson. I advise reading this series in proper sequence because there are events and relationships that are confusing if you do …
So, you think you know the whole story about WWII? I thought I did! That was before I started reading books by Ben Macintyre: Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and finally Double Cross. I strongly recommend all three. Agent Zigzag follows one of the first double-triple-quadruple-crossing spies that MI5 recruited during WWII. Operation Mincemeat tells the more complete story …
I do not know how I discovered David Downing’s Zoo Station, but boy am I glad I did. This novel, the first of a series, is set in pre-WWII Germany and neighboring countries. There is high caliber tension on every page. John Russell is a British freelance journalist and former Communist sympathizer living in Berlin. The …
