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A review by trilby001
Zoo Station by David Downing
4.0
This book was recommended by the owner of a mystery book shop. She thought I would like it because of its setting in pre-war Germany, and she was right.
The main characters--the ex-pat Brit, his German girlfriend, son--are all interesting and vividly drawn, as are the secondary ones. I've been many of the places in the story, and I think Downing does a good job of capturing a sense of place.
The pieces of the spy-thriller plot are put together systematically, almost too systematically, but on the whole, it's an well-written, suspenseful story of life in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
The main characters--the ex-pat Brit, his German girlfriend, son--are all interesting and vividly drawn, as are the secondary ones. I've been many of the places in the story, and I think Downing does a good job of capturing a sense of place.
The pieces of the spy-thriller plot are put together systematically, almost too systematically, but on the whole, it's an well-written, suspenseful story of life in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.