Publisher's Synopsis
THE LONG-AWAITED PREQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING 'BERLIN STATION' SERIES
Berlin, February 1933. John Russell watches the Reichstag burn, but it's no scoop, even for a crime reporter. Four weeks after Hitler's accession, brownshirt mobs stalk the streets and the press prints what the Party tells it. Russell, a former communist with a British passport, should be packing his bags, but while family ties bind him, his assignments keep drawing him closer to the savage heart of the new regime – and the story that only ends one way.
