Union Station

In this fascinating historical thriller, a British journalist (and former spy) is adrift in McCarthy-era Los Angelesuntil his research into a wartime conspiracy brings him face-to-face with the perilous instability of a post-Stalin Berlin.John Russell, an English journalist who specializes in human-interest pieces, had always been a reluctant spy. Its a dangerous lifeespecially when you are tasked with being a double agent for Soviet and American intelligence, in a city as fraught with hazard as Nazi-occupied Berlin. But its been years, now, since Russell was finally able to extricate himself from his life of espionagethrough a shady deal with a high-ranking Soviet official.Now its 1953, and Russell and his familyhis long-time partner, Effi Koenen, a burgeoning star on an American sitcom, and their daughter, Rosa, a young artist on the cusp of adulthoodlive a life of relative comfort in Los Angeles. Feeling...