David Downing

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1983
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Dragon Kings Saga

1 - The Lightning Storm (Oct-2013)
2 - Lakyier (Aug-2014)
3 - Evil Within (Nov-2015)

A Jack McColl Novel

1 - Jack of Spies (May-2014)
2 - One Man's Flag (Nov-2015)
3 - Lenin's Roller Coaster (Mar-2017)
4 - The Dark Clouds Shining (Apr-2018)

John Russell

1 - Zoo Station (May-2007)
2 - Silesian Station (May-2008)
3 - Stettin Station (Jan-2010)
4 - Potsdam Station (Apr-2011)
5 - Lehrter Station (May-2012)
6 - Masaryk Station (Jun-2013)
7 - Wedding Station (Mar-2021)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Devil's Virtuosos

  • Zoo Station

    John Russell - 1

    By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported...

  • Silesian Station

    John Russell - 2

    Summer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American citizenship in exchange for agreeing to work for American intelligence when his girlfriend Effi is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his new nationality would let him s...

  • Stettin Station

    John Russell - 3

    In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son, Paul, and his longtime girlfriend, Effi. Forced to work for both Germ...

  • Looking for the King

    It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old graduate student, is in England researching the historical evidence for the legendary King Arthur. There he meets perky and intuitive Laura Hartman, a fellow American staying with her aunt in Oxford,...

  • Potsdam Station

    John Russell - 4

    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 Ea...

  • Lehrter Station

    John Russell - 5

    Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking ...

  • Masaryk Station

    John Russell - 6

    Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleetin...

  • The Moscow Option

    This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle -- what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grot...



  • The Lightning Storm

    Dragon Kings Saga - 1

    Josh and Amy have been best friends since childhood despite the fact that they are social opposites. Josh is an outcast with few friends, awkward and nerdy. Amy is a cheerleader, lead singer of a rising band, and very beautiful. Both dream of the fut...

  • Jack of Spies

    A Jack McColl Novel - 1

    Set on the eve of the First World War, across oceans and continents, steamliners and cross-country trains, David Downing’s complex and thrilling new espionage novel takes us all the way back to the dawn of that most fascinating of 20th century char...

  • Lakyier

    Dragon Kings Saga - 2

    Josh and Amy find themselves on the planet of Lakyier, where magic is suppressed. Looking for a way back home won’t be easy without the magic they have come to rely on. The couple’s love is put to the test when Clara joins them and an even more d...

  • The Red Eagles

    World War II is nearly over. For the Russians, the enemy is no longer Nazi Germany, but the American behemoth that threatens to topple the Communist revolution. Deep within the walls of the Kremlin, Stalin’s top man hatches a brilliant plan that wi...

  • Evil Within

    Dragon Kings Saga - 3

    Bastion, an immortal demon dragon, has been imprisoned within the chosen one for many ages. Freed from this banishment, he returns home seeking to return it to the chaotic fiery hell it once was. Reawakening the land’s demonic protections, magic ce...

  • One Man's Flag

    A Jack McColl Novel - 2

    Spring 1915: World War One rages across Europe, and the British Empire is assailed on all fronts -- domestic and abroad. Amidst this bloodbath of nations, where one man’s flag is another man’s shroud, a British spy is asked to do the impossible: ...

  • Dragon Vigilante

    Starting a relationship is hard enough without being a thousand year old dragon. Caleb decides it is time to give love another shot. Crime is rampant but he has the ability to do what the corrupt police are unwilling to do. As Caleb’s emotions flar...

  • Lenin's Roller Coaster

    A Jack McColl Novel - 3

    In Russia the Bolshevik revolution is in full-swing while the supposed Great War is destroying Europe in ways never before imagined. Fulltime lovers and part-time enemies, British spy Jack McColl and progressive American journalist Caitlin Hanley, ha...

  • The Dark Clouds Shining

    A Jack McColl Novel - 4

    In the fourth and final installment of David Downing’s spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution hangi...

  • Diary of a Dead Man on Leave

    From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Jos...



  • Wedding Station

    John Russell - 7

    The prequel to David Downing’s bestselling Station series introduces John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power.February 27, 1933. In this stunning prequel to the John Russell esp...

  • Union Station

    In this fascinating historical thriller, a British journalist (and former spy) is adrift in McCarthy-era Los Angeles -- until his research into a wartime conspiracy brings him face-to-face with the perilous instability of a post-Stalin Berlin.John Ru...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Downing has published 21 books.

David Downing does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Union Station, was published in February 2024.

The first book by David Downing, Devil's Virtuosos, was published in April 1983.

Yes. David Downing has 3 series.
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