David Downing
Born	(1946-08-09)9 August 1946 (age 78) London, England
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Non-fiction, fiction, crime, mystery

David Downing (born 1946^[1]) is a British author of mystery novels and nonfiction. His works have been reviewed byPublishers Weekly,^[2][3]The New York Times,^[4] andThe Wall Street Journal.^[5] He is known for his convincing depictions of World War II^{[6][better source needed]} and Berlin.^[5] He has written a series of espionage thrillers, based around Anglo-American character John Russell exploring Germany in the 1940s. They are known as "The Station Series" because they are all named after train stations, mostly in Berlin.

Downing grew up inHarrow, London. He gained a BA in Afro-Asian Studies and an MA in International Relations from theUniversity of Sussex. In 1974 he travelled overland to India via Iran and Afghanistan. He visited theSoviet Union three times. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was involved in the creation of an environmental centre in north-east London, and visited South and Central America. From 1993 he lived in Boston, Massachusetts with his future wife Nancy. Since 1998 they have lived in Guildford.^[7]

Between 1973 and 1976, Downing contributed to the music magazineLet It Rock and freelanced for other rock magazines. His first book,Future Rock, was published in 1975. This is a study of utopian and science fiction explorations of the future in music, analysing the work ofBob Dylan,David Bowie,Pink Floyd and others.^{[citation needed]}

Jack of Spies, the first novel in a new series set before, during and afterWorld War I, was published in September 2013.^[8]

His contributions to the studies of World War II history have appeared in nonfiction books and thrillers. His studies mainly examine the events that decided "the fate of Germany and Japan" toward the end of the war.^[9] He wrote acounterfactual history of theSecond World War,The Moscow Option. He wroteAn Atlas of Territorial and Border Disputes (1980, New English Library,ISBN 0-450-04804-7).

Under the nameDavid Monnery he has written novels about the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service.^[9]

He has also written books about football, history books for children, and a biography ofNeil Young.

• Zoo Station (2007)ISBN 978-1-56947-971-1
• Silesian Station (2008)ISBN 978-1-56947-573-7
• Stettin Station (2009)ISBN 978-1-56947-919-3
• Potsdam Station (2010)ISBN 1-56947-917-8
• Lehrter Station (2012)ISBN 978-1-61695-074-3
• Masaryk Station (2013)ISBN 978-1616952235
• Wedding Station (2021)ISBN 978-1641291088
• Union Station (2024)ISBN 978-1641293570

• Jack of Spies (2013)ISBN 978-1-61695-268-6
• One Man's Flag (2015)ISBN 978-1-61695-270-9
• Lenin's Roller Coaster (2017)ISBN 978-1-61695-604-2
• The Dark Clouds Shining (2018)ISBN 978-1-61695-606-6

• The Moscow Option (1980)ISBN 978-185367-463-1
• Russian Revolution (1985)ISBN 978-0-45006-002-1
• The Red Eagles (1987)ISBN 978-1-61695-599-1
• Diary of a Dead Man on Leave (2019)ISBN 978-1-61695-843-5

• Monnery, David (1995).Marine C: The Florida Run.ISBN 9781898125396.
• Monnery, David (1996).Marine G: China Seas.ISBN 1898125635.
• Monnery, David (1996).Marine I: Escape from Azerbaijan. 22 Books.ISBN 978-1-898125-83-9.

• Gambian Bluff
• Guatemala - Journey into Evil
• For King and Country
• Zulu Four
• Mission to Argentina
• Bosnian Inferno
• Samarkand Hijack
• Colombian Cocaine War
• Days of the Dead

• Future Rock (1976)ISBN 978-0-586-04308-0
• Clint Eastwood—All-American Anti-Hero (1978, with Gary Herman)ISBN 0-86001-412-6
• Jane Fonda—All-American Anti-Heroine (1980, with Gary Herman)ISBN 0-86001-644-7
• A Dreamer Of Pictures: Neil Young: The Man And His Music (1994)ISBN 0747518815
• Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days that Decided World War II, (2009)ISBN 0-306-81620-2

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