A classic cat-and-mouse game -- except it’s no game. David Downing’s latest novel, Lehrter Station (Soho Crime), chronicles days full of
promise, punctuated by nights full of peril, in a nation emerging from war and
pulled in many directions at once.
November 1945. World War II has ended, and people on both
sides of the conflict struggle to put the events of the previous five years
behind them