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Ghost Station

By: Dan Wells
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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Berlin. 1961. Two months after the Wall. And the Cold War is threatening to boil over.

It is an especially uneasy time at The Cabin, a joint US-West German listening station. Its agents failed to see the Wall coming. And now the East Germans and their Soviet allies are making new, aggressive moves.

Then, CIA cryptographer Wallace Reed decodes the latest message from the double agent known as Longshore - and the crisis escalates. Has Longshore been caught? Suborned? Murdered? Or, the worst possibility of all - is he trying to send a secret code to a mole in Reed’s own office, sabotaging their intelligence and sending reports back to the other side?

Ghost Station is a tense thriller about espionage, cryptography, and paranoia, set in the earliest days of the Berlin Wall. Can Reed trust Longshore? His boss? His lover? Can he find the truth behind the lies - or will Berlin become ground zero for a world-ending war?

©2019 Dan Wells. Excerpts from Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut copyright 1952, 1980 by Kurt Vonnegut, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC, and Dell Publishing, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.
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Fantastic book

Ghost Station is one of the best spy novels I’ve read, and I’ve read more than my share (Le Carre, Ludlum, etc.).The characters and story feel utterly real and plausible. There are no Bonds or Bournes here, just a well-developed Everyman protagonist with real weaknesses, mistakes, and reactions. The plot is excellent, the setting authentic, but it’s the depth and emotion infused into the characters that resonate most. The antagonists are not cardboard cutouts either, as you’ll find with the devastatingly sympathetic motive of an antagonist revealed at the end.

Dan Wells has written a fantastic book here, and the narrator does a good job too. It’s well worth the read/listen, and I hope it gets a printed book edition, because it deserves a larger audience.

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Gripping!!

This is a fantastic book that holds the listener throughout. The fear and intrigue of Berlin at that time is palpable throughout the story.

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Terrific!

This is the best spy-thriller I have ever read while also being one of the most enjoyable reads. I'm convinced it will stand the test of time to be one of my all-time favourite books.

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Gripping story that keeps you hooked to the end

I loved this story. Dan Wells creates a very plausible atmosphere as backdrop to the story. The intense paranoia - everyone suspects everyone. I also loved learning more about encryption and codes. The reader is terrific, reading clearly and altering his voice to represent the different characters. The plot never flags, developing and building up to a thrilling climax. I'll be looking out for more books by this author.

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Evocative, atmospheric and intelligent thriller.

The opening sequence and subsequent references to Berlin as the wall goes up amongst the mixed communities and intelligence agencies in 1961 is thrilling. The codes and complicated world of encryption must be a joy to game and puzzle geeks. Occasionally the layers of codes become a little overwhelming but the characters redeem the balance of the storytelling.A stimulating and fascinating book. Where do I get a hard copy?

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would have been a smashing bestseller in the '80s

the narrator does a good job with the English bits, and also his German pronunciation is very good.
the plot and style are really cool

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