David Downing
David Downing is a British author of political/spy thriller novels and non-fiction books. He is the author of the John Russell & Effi Koenen World War II spy thriller series. He has also written an eclectic mixture of non-fiction books, ranging from military and political history, Russian Football, musicians like Neil Young and much more.

David Downing had been writing non-fiction prior to this, but his debut as a novelist came in 2007 with the novel Zoo Station, which began his John Russell series. Below is a list of David Downing’s books in order of when they were first released:

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Publication Order of John Russell & Effi Koenen Books

Zoo Station(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silesian Station(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stettin Station(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Potsdam Station(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lehrter Station(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Masaryk Station(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wedding Station(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Union Station(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wedding Station is a prequel to the series.

Publication Order of Jack McColl Books

Jack of Spies(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Man's Flag(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lenin's Roller Coaster(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dark Clouds Shining(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Leading Lives Books

(with Anna Claybourne)

Joseph Stalin(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Benito Mussolini(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mohandas Gandhi(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Emmeline Pankhurst(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Golda Meir (By: Anna Claybourne)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ho Chi Minh(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Che Guevara(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lenin(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Moscow Option(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Red Eagles(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Diary of a Dead Man on Leave(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Future Rock(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Clint Eastwood(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil's Virtuosos(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War Without End, Peace Without Hope(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Charles Bronson(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jack Nicholson(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marlon Brando(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robert Redford(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robert Mitchum(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dreamer Of Pictures(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Passovotchka(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Enemies(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yasser Arafat(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sealing Their Fate(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Gothic Fantasy Books

Paradise Lost & Other Poems (By: John Milton)(1667)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Poems, Letters & Biography (By: Lewis Carroll)(1865)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
H.G. Wells Short Stories (By: H.G. Wells)(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Short Stories (By: David Tallerman,Rachael K. Jones,Sarah Hans,Brian Trent,Adrian Ludens,Keyan Bowes,Beth Cato,Andy Sawyer,Zach Shephard,Alexis A. Hunter,M. Darusha Wehm,Edward Ahern,Patrick Tumblety,Donald Jacob Uitvlugt,Kate O'Connor,Conor Powers-Smith,Stewart C. Baker,MikeMorgan,Nemma Wollenfang,Jacob M. Lambert,Laura Bulbeck,Rob Hartzell)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chilling Horror Short Stories (By: Charles Dickens,Arthur Conan Doyle,Bram Stoker,Edgar Allan Poe,Robert Louis Stevenson,Elizabeth Gaskell,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edith Wharton,D.H. Lawrence,Lucy Taylor,William Hope Hodgson,A. Merritt,John Buchan,F. Marion Crawford,Robert E. Howard,C.L. Moore,Frank Long,Robert W. Chambers,Rebecca J. Allred,Frank Roger,Gwendolyn Kiste,Elise Forier Edie,Michael Paul Gonzalez,D.J. Tyrer,William R.D. Wood,Kristopher Triana,James Lecky,Glen Damien Campbell,Justin Coates,John H. Dromey,Andrew J. Wilson,Bill Kte'pi,Ed Grabianowski,Gillian Whitaker,Nick Wells,Laura Bulbeck,Dale Townshend,Michael Bondies,David A Elsensohn,Eric Esser,John Neruda,Frances Bodlam,Josie Mitchell)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chilling Ghost Short Stories (By: Charles Dickens,Arthur Conan Doyle,Edgar Allan Poe,Robert Louis Stevenson,Wilkie Collins,Nikolai Gogol,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,E. Nesbit,Henry James,W.W. Jacobs,Oscar Wilde,Washington Irving,Edith Wharton,M.R. James,James Dorr,E.F. Benson,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Amanda C. Davis,Robert W. Chambers,Kurt Bachard,Raymond Little,Brian Rappatta,Tim Foley,Vonnie Winslow Crist,Michael Penkas,Jonathan Balog,Donna Cuttress,Luke Murphy,Annette Siketa,Philip Brian Hall,Rhiannon Rasmussen,Jeff Parsons,M.Regan,Zach Chapman,Lesa Pascavis Smith,Trevor Boelter,Laura Bulbeck,Dale Townshend,Cathy Smith)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crime & Mystery Short Stories (By: Cameron Trost,Marcelle Dube,James Dorr,Jennifer Gifford,Dan Stout,Ruth Nestvold,Jennifer Dornan-Fish,H.L. Fullerton,Tara Campbell,Nathan Hystad)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Swords & Steam Short Stories (By: S.T. Joshi,Amanda C. Davis,Jennifer Dornan-Fish,Spencer Ellsworth,Liam Hogan)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dystopia Utopia Short Stories (By: Rudyard Kipling,Jack London,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Kim Antieau,Voltaire,William Morris,Claude Lalumière,Robert W. Chambers,Samuel Butler,Gerri Leen,Konstantine Paradias,M. Darusha Wehm,Thomas More,Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,Edward Bellamy,Carolyn Charron,Jeremy Szal,J.M. Templet,Steve Carr,Richard Jefferies,Michelle Kaseler,Andrew J. Wilson,Nidhi Singh,Jeff Parsons,Sarah Lyn Eaton,Megan Dorei,Dave Golder,Kelsey Shannahan,Russ Thorne)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Mayhem Short Stories (By: James Dorr,Gerri Leen,Liam Hogan,Kate Heartfield,David M. Hoenig,Donald Jacob Uitvlugt)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lovecraft Short Stories (By: H.P. Lovecraft)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Worlds Short Stories (By: Various)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Supernatural Horror Short Stories (By: Roger Luckhurst,Damien Angelica Walters)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Travel Short Stories (By: Dominick Cancilla,Brian Trent,Kate Heartfield)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heroic Fantasy Short Stories (By: Various)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Edgar Allan Poe Collection (By: Edgar Allan Poe)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (By: )(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Agents & Spies Short Stories(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories (By: Jeremy A. TeGrotenhuis)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table (By: Thomas Malory,Aubrey Beardsley)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alien Invasion Short Stories (By: H.G. Wells,H.P. Lovecraft,Jonathan Swift,A. Merritt,Voltaire,Claude Lalumière,Rich Larson,Rachael K. Jones,George Allan England,Patrick Parrinder,Austin Hall,William R.D. Wood,John Walters,Bo Balder,Maria Haskins,Garrett P. Serviss,Sunil Patel,Jennifer Rachel Baumer,Laura Pearlman,Robert Potter,Tim Pieraccini,Angus McIntyre,Suo Hefu,George Chesney,Stephen G. Parks,Eric Reitan,S.A. Westerley)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Norse Myths & Tales (By: Brittany Schorn)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bram Stoker Horror Stories (By: Bram Stoker)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Endless Apocalypse Short Stories (By: Shannon Connor Winward,Michael Paul Gonzalez)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories (By: George Cotronis,Rich Larson,Rachael K. Jones,Bruce Golden,Holly Lyn Walrath,Monte Lin,Eleanor R. Wood,David Sklar,Nemma Wollenfang,Deborah Davitt,Trixie Nisbet,Luke Dormehl,Roan Clay,Jeff Deck,Christopher Geeson,Rob Hartzell,Nathaniel Hosford,Chloie Piveral,Claire Sorrenson,Sara Uckelman)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Souls (By: Roger Luckhurst,Damien Angelica Walters)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Greek Myths & Tales (By: Richard Buxton)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chinese Myths & Tales (By: Davide Latini)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Irish Fairy Tales (By: Arthur Rackham,D.L. Ashliman)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mary Shelley Horror Stories (By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Celtic Myths & Tales (By: Jake Jackson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Haunted House Short Stories (By: Edgar Allan Poe,O. Henry,Elizabeth Gaskell,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,Guy de Maupassant,E. Nesbit,Rudyard Kipling,Ramsey Campbell,Ambrose Bierce,W.W. Jacobs,H.P. Lovecraft,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,M.R. James,Charlotte Eliza Riddell,E.F. Benson,William Hope Hodgson,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,John Everson,Arthur Quiller-Couch,Rhoda Broughton,Bernard Capes,Gwendolyn Kiste,Hugh Walpole,Ralph Adams Cram,Mikal Trimm,Mrs. Oliphant,Zach Shephard,B.M. Croker,Shannon Fay,Morgan Sylvia,Kurt Newton,Tom English,Adele Gardner,Rebecca Buchanan,Rebecca Janicker,H.B. Diaz,Marina Favila,Bill Kte'pi,M.Regan)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cosy Crime Short Stories (By: Arthur Conan Doyle,E.E. King,G.K. Chesterton,R. Austin Freeman,Arnold Bennett,Edgar Wallace,Arthur Morrison,Martin Edwards,Ernest Bramah,Maurice Leblanc,Amanda C. Davis,Stephanie Bedwell-Grime,Emmuska Orczy,Israel Zangwill,Anna Katharine Green,Catherine Louisa Pirkis,Flame Tree Studio,Andrew Forrester,Nancy Sweetland,Jeffrey B. Burton,Louise Taylor,Annette Siketa,Philip Brian Hall,Tom Mead,C.B. Channell,Michael Martin Garrett,Trixie Nisbet,Joshua Boyce,Sarah Holly Bryant,Gregory Von Dare,B. David Spicer,Elise Warner,Anton Chekhov)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brothers Grimm Short Stories (By: Jacob Grimm)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
American Gothic Short Stories (By: Ramsey Campbell,Lucy A. Snyder,Lina Rather,Sean Logan,Wendy Nikel,Christi Nogle,Lynette Mejía,Madison McSweeney,Russell James,M.Regan,Monika Elbert,Terri Bruce,Maxx Fidalgo,Joshua Hiles,Clayton Kroh,Joe Nazare,Rebecca Ring,Mike Robinson,Valerie B. Williams,Nemma Wollenfang)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria (By: Various,Peter Garratt)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Urban Crime Short Stories (By: Ramsey Campbell,Josh Pachter,Judi Calhoun,David Tallerman,Rich Larson,Meg Elison,Dan Micklethwaite,Thana Niveau,Michael Penncavage,T.J. Berg,Chris Wheatley,Alexandra Renwick,Leo X. Robertson,K.W. Roberts,Rachel Watts,Jennifer Quail,Trixie Nisbet,Christopher P. Semtner,C.L. McDaniel,Salinda Tyson)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Japanese Myths & Tales (By: Jake Jackson)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection (By: Robert Bloch,Ramsey Campbell,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Fritz Leiber,Henry Kuttner,Hal Bodner,Clark Ashton Smith,William Browning Spencer,Mark Samuels,Robert E. Howard,Victor LaValle,Frank Long,Lord Dunsany,Arthur Machen,Caitlín R. Kiernan,Robert W. Chambers,Nancy Kilpatrick,JG Faherty,Rachael K. Jones,Cody Goodfellow,Evey Brett,John Llewellyn Probert,Zealia Bishop,Hazel Heald,Jonathan Thomas,Donald Tyson,Thana Niveau,Douglas Wynne,Helen E. Davis,N.R. Lambert,Scott R. Jones,Gillian Whitaker,Nick Wells,Taylor Bentley,Catherine Taylor,Caroline Watson,August E. Derleth,John Possidente,R.S. Stefoff)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Epic Fantasy Short Stories (By: Leah Cypess)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dying Planet Short Stories (By: Dave Golder)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Detective Thrillers Short Stories (By: Marie Vibbert)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories (By: Charles Dickens)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Marian Womack)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heroes & Heroines Short Stories (By: Maria Tatar)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Native American MythsTales (By: Sam D. Gill)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales (By: Abbie Farwell Brown,Andrew Lang,Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm,Joseph Jacobs,Yei Theodora Ozaki,Douglas Hyde,Thomas Malory,Jeremiah Curtin,Henry Rowe Schoolcraft,Lewis Spence,Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford,James Mooney,Charles Godfrey Leland,Florence Holbrook,E.A. Wallis Budge,Richard Wilhelm,F. Hadland Davis,Norman Hinsdale Pitman,Yi Ryuk,Charles Montgomery Skinner,Edmund Leamy,Sophia Morrison,William Elliot Griffis,James Scarth Gale,Elphinstone Dayrell,Alice Werner,M.I. Ogumefu,William Butler Yeats,Diane Purkiss,George W. Bateman,Elsie Finnimore Buckley,Margaret Compton,Jonathan Ceredig Davies,George Douglas,Alice Elizabeth Dracott,George Grey,Francis Hindes Groome,H.A. Guerber,Eleanor Hull,W.F. Kirby,Ignác Kúnos,Minnie Martin,Frederick H. Martens,W.R.S. Ralston,A.G. Seklemian,Chauncy Hugh Stigand,J.R. Walker,E.T.C. Werner,William Drake Westervelt,Lady Wilde,Albert Henry Wratislaw)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
George Orwell Visions of Dystopia (By: George Orwell)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales (By: Liz Gloyn)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (By: Charles Dickens,Bram Stoker,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Algernon Blackwood,Edith Wharton,M.R. James,E.F. Benson,William Hope Hodgson,A.C. Benson,Marjorie Bowen,Francis Marion Crawford)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (By: K. Tempest Bradford,Russell Nichols,Wole Talabi,W.E.B. Du Bois,Tara Campbell,Walidah Imarisha,James Beamon,Martin R. Delany,Sandra M. Grayson,Patty Nicole Johnson,Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins,Temi Oh,Michelle F. Goddard,Tia Ross,Harambee K. Grey-Sun,Sutton E. Griggs,Emmalia Harrington,Edward Johnson,Megan Pindling,Sylvie Soul,Lyle Stiles)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
M.R. James Ghost Stories (By: M.R. James)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chilling Crime Short Stories (By: Dan Stout,Margaret Murphy)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Christine Ruymbeke)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
BeastsCreatures MythsTales: Epic Tales (By: Tok Thompson)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Asian Ghost Short Stories (By: Lee Murray,K.P. Kulski)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Horror Short Stories (By: M.R. James)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christmas Gothic Short Stories (By: Jerrold E. Hogle)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
First Peoples Shared Stories: Gothic Fantasy (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alternate History Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hidden Realms Short Stories (By: Anna Taborska,Briana Una McGuckin)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories (By: Rayne Hall,BretNelson,Wen Wen Yang,Ahmed al-Rawi)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Atlantis Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aztec Myths & Tales (By: Jake Jackson)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories (By: Algernon Blackwood)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Viking Folk & Fairy Tales (By: Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales (By: Allison Galbraith)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Egyptian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Jake Jackson)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Learning to Be Human Short Stories (By: P.A. Cornell)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shadows on the Water Short Stories (By: Rachael K. Jones)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arthur Machen Horror Stories (By: Arthur Machen)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
William Hope Hodgson Horror Stories (By: William Hope Hodgson,Jonathan Newell)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
African Ghost Short Stories (By: Chinelo Onwualu,Nuzo Onoh,Divine Che Neba)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Titans & Giants Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: )(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quests & Journeys (By: Matt Cardin)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Babylon & Sumer Myths & Tales (By: Fiona Collins)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sun Rising Short Stories (By: Faye Snowden,Ravit Helled)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Moon Falling Short Stories (By: Various,Ben Moore)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Stories (By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Afrofuturism Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science),Dr. Sandra M. Grayson)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Were Wolf Short Stories (By: Dr. Karen E. Macfarlane)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prophecies & Oracles Myths & Tales (By: Richard Stoneman)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robots Past & Future Short Stories (By: Chris Beckett)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kalevala & Finnish Myths & Tales (By: Various)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Faeries & Nymphs Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Dr Jennifer Larson)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Slavic Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Kristijan Petrovic,Ema Lakinska)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Africanfuturism Short Stories (By: Chinelo Onwualu,Yvette Lisa Ndlovu)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Folklore Horror Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wars in the Stars Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christmas Horror Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio)(2026)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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