Wedding Station

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Simon Vance

The prequel to David Downing's best-selling Station series introduces John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power.

Berlin, 27 February 1933. A month after Hitler's inauguration as Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag parliament building is set ablaze. The Nazis use the torching to justify a campaign of terror against their political opponents.

John Russell's recent separation from his wife threatens his right to reside in Germany and any meaningful relationship with his six-year-old son Paul. He has just secured work as a crime reporter for a Berlin newspaper, and the crimes which he has to report - the gruesome murder of a rent boy, the hit-and-run death of a professional genealogist, the suspicious disappearance of a Nazi-supporting celebrity fortune-teller - are increasingly entangled in the wider nightmare engulfing Germany.

Each new investigation carries the risk of Russell's falling foul of the authorities, at a time when the rule of law has completely vanished, and the Nazis are running scores of pop-up detention centers, complete with torture chambers, in every corner of Berlin.

©2021 David Downing (P)2021 Recorded Books Inc.

The overall story line for the time period.

Out of sequence - from the other books- but it did fill in the time time period well

It was ok

I loved the first 5 books of the series. This one was ok. It didn’t have the same level of mystery and intrigue as the others. It felt kind of all over the place. I wanted it to pick up where the last book left off and finish the story, so I was disappointed in that as well.

deleted 1/4 way ...

how disappointing.. trashy...

a story that could have been told without vulgarity...

i want a refund...

Wonderfully Written….But

I have to say I enjoyed listening to this book in large part due to the narration. The narrator made the book come alive. That said, not much actually happens in the book until the last 25%. The story really just rambled along with no single purpose until the final couple of chapters. It’s a decent listen but you have to be patient…

Just like being there

Downing brings the fall of the Weimar Republic and the early Nazi years vividly to life - in all the best but also terrifying ways.