Hey guys, this is Special Episode of The Watch where we're talking about David Downing

Zoo Station novel. It's the first episode of our Double Down Book Club. A lot of you have

gone out and checked out Zoo Station and finished it and that's great. This pod is the pod for you.

If you haven't finished Zoo Station or you haven't read it, I think you could still take a lot

from the podcast. There's a lot of interesting discussion about espionage and crime fiction,

the world we live in, the world we used to live in. So it's a pretty wide ranging discussion with

Andy here about the novel, but also about World War II and writing and reading books like this.

But by all means, read Zoo Station and feel free to save this for that later time if you want

because we do discuss plot points, spoilers, characters, etc.

I actually say that the Allies won World War II and I apologize. I should have had a spoiler about that.

What did I just say about spoilers? Without further ado, here is the first episode of The Double Down

Book Club. It is David Downing Zoo Station, me and Andy's conversation about it.

Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Reijn. I am an editor at therigger.com and joining me

in the studio with the briefcase of the secret compartment. It's Andy Griebos! Chris, you and I

started this podcast five years ago early on, weeks, relative weeks into it. We said,

yeah, we should have a book club. Yeah, why not? We love to read books. We love reading books.

And The Double Down Book Club was born and it stayed in the crib. Yeah. For about five years,

there have been... It's a big baby now. There have been times we have suggested books that we're

going to read. Yeah. So waiting to get your feedback, your thoughts on Dennis Laheins live by night,

you just let me know. Sure. As Gaffleck. We had a Tumblr, snitchbuttlers.tumbler.com. We wrote

a little bit about Ross Thomas and James Cromley. You're welcome. I'm a Samar. And we never really

did it. And then all of a sudden, some momentum started. And the momentum is finally paying off

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