Blogs in March 2020

Gambian Bluff (SAS Operation) 25th March 2020

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can just three members of the SAS quell a rebel uprising? July 1981: while Gambian President Jawara attends a royal wedding in London, Marxist rebels seize power. Fearing armed intervention from neighbouring Senegal, they...

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Silesian Station 1st January 1970

In July 1939 Russell returns to Berlin as the newly-appointed Central European correspondent of an American newspaper. With his communist past, German son and English-American parentage he’s the perfect catch for any of Europe’s warring espionage services — and...

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Zoo Station 1st January 1970

Englishman John Russell is a member of the foreign press corps in Berlin and a first-hand witness to the brutal machinations of Hitler and the Nazi party in the build-up to war during the early months of 1939. When...

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Lehrter Station 1st January 1970

November 1945. John Russell is walking home through the grey streets of postwar London when his old accomplice, Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin, falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin informs Russell that his masters in Moscow have decided it’s time...

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Stettin Station 1st January 1970

November 1941. John Russell is living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. One of a dwindling handful of much-censored journalists, Russell finds...

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