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katmarhan's review against another edition
4.0
8/10
A complicated plot that takes place mostly in the late 1980's (USSR still exists, as does a divided Germany), with flashbacks to World War II. This is not my favorite type of book (Nazis, KGB, and Stasi), but the author pulled me in and it was quite a ride!
A complicated plot that takes place mostly in the late 1980's (USSR still exists, as does a divided Germany), with flashbacks to World War II. This is not my favorite type of book (Nazis, KGB, and Stasi), but the author pulled me in and it was quite a ride!
jakewritesbooks's review against another edition
3.0
A very week 3 stars. Maybe I've read too many thrillers this summer, but I just wasn't as impressed as I should have been with this book. The dialogue is good and it moves along okay, but perhaps 695 pages are a little too many. I don't usually mind long reads if there's a payoff but the conspiracy here was a one-trick pony (did Greg Iles really need to take 4/5ths of the book to explain the big twist anyone reading knew the whole time?) that got stretched too far. Also, for what is allegedly a massive global conspiracy, these people sure do write down a lot of stuff. Overall, a good book that could have cut several random characters/plots out to shorten the page length and made it a tighter read.
jamikrut's review against another edition
4.0
I finished the last half of this book in a day and loved it. Greg Iles needs to stick to historical fiction. He's great at it. This book was pretty complicated with a LOT of characters, but Iles did a great job of keeping them all straight and setting the scene a bit before diving into subsequent parts of the story.
This was also a great suspense novel, Iles seemed to find an unexplained part of WW2 and created a great fictional piece around explaining the disappearance of a very highly ranked Nazi in 1941.
I really liked this book and would recommend it to anyone who has the time to slog through a 600 page book, but who also wants a good, exciting historical fiction novel.
This was also a great suspense novel, Iles seemed to find an unexplained part of WW2 and created a great fictional piece around explaining the disappearance of a very highly ranked Nazi in 1941.
I really liked this book and would recommend it to anyone who has the time to slog through a 600 page book, but who also wants a good, exciting historical fiction novel.
packerfan1729's review
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
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