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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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Great story

I was so anxious to see what happened next. Dan wells thrills with action and mystery.

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An excellent, thrilling book!

A very well done book that leaves you on the edge of your seat. Fantastically performed. You'll lose yourself in the mystery.

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Enjoyable spy novel

This was a very fun book. Likeable characters and a good mystery kept me engaged and entertained.

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Ghost Station

I would have given this a five star rating, except for the first fourth, or so, of the book dragged along pretty slowly due to so much minutiae regarding cryptography, which to someone (like me) who simply isn’t good at solving puzzles is a little boring. The rest of the book, however, flew along at a fast pace, especially the last few chapters. If you enjoy a good spy story with a lot of action, you should enjoy this book, especially if you enjoy solving puzzles.

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Dan Wells continues to prove he can do anything

Full of well-timed twists and surprises. If you like cryptography, historical thrillers, or good storytelling you should give this book a listen.

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What a Great Story!

I thoroughly enjoyed this spy tale. It was exciting and full of unexpected plot twists and turns. Well worth purchasing! The narrator was great too.

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Good book, overly dramatic

I liked this books plot and enjoyed the historical references. for me the performer was too emotional and loud/angry at times. I'd prefer a less emotional read with a more consistent volume. the downside of the plot was that it got a little far fetched later in the book, but that's only a slighter issue. I'd recommend it overall, but it's not going to make a list of my favorites because of the performance. I'm sure other people won't mind it though.

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amazing

this was my first historical fiction read and it was fantastic. the reading did great and kept me engaged. Dan Wells did so great on his plot and the twist. I loved it!

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Delightfully paranoid

I listened to this over a roadtrip and I found myself taking unnecessary side trips just so I could spend more time in the car listening. I was riveted. The paranoia is perfect--at times you think anyone and everyone could be the bad guy--and you're trying to solve the clues along with the cryptographer.

Also, the level of research that must have gone into this book is mindblowing, from the history to the cryptography.

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A Perfect Cold War Thriller

I grew up during the Cold War, and spy stories in that setting were too real, too scary to be enjoyable at the time. Perhaps because it benefits from distance, and declassification of secrets, GHOST STATION is more enjoyable AND more realistic than the spy thrillers I read back in the 80's.

Dan Wells wrote a great book, but Jonathan Davis's narration takes it to another level entirely. His is the best single-narrator performance I've ever listened to. It's so good I can't imagine trying to read the book without his help.

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