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A review by maryjfray
An Affair of Spies by Ronald H. Balson
4.0
4.5/5
This book made me feel like I was sitting in my 9th grade physics class and wasn’t that time just the best?
In this story, set against the backdrop of WW2, we follow Nathan – a Jewish man who escaped from Germany in the early 1930s and joined the US military. He is suddenly transferred and given an unusual assignment - go to Germany and smuggle out a nuclear scientist (but not before getting information about the German nuclear program out of him). In this mission Nathan is accompanied by Allison Fisher – an American nuclear scientist, who agreed to this mission in order to prevent mass destruction.
The book has a really interesting plot with a lot of unpredictable plot twists. What I liked is that it doesn’t follow the blueprint of a usual WW2 novel.
As to what I didn’t quite like was that the dialogues (especially in the beginning of the book) seemed a little bit too un-human, as in, too perfected and edited, it just didn’t sound the way real people actually talk. Also, I felt like the relationship between Allison and Nathan developed a bit too quickly in the beginning.
This book made me feel like I was sitting in my 9th grade physics class and wasn’t that time just the best?
In this story, set against the backdrop of WW2, we follow Nathan – a Jewish man who escaped from Germany in the early 1930s and joined the US military. He is suddenly transferred and given an unusual assignment - go to Germany and smuggle out a nuclear scientist (but not before getting information about the German nuclear program out of him). In this mission Nathan is accompanied by Allison Fisher – an American nuclear scientist, who agreed to this mission in order to prevent mass destruction.
The book has a really interesting plot with a lot of unpredictable plot twists. What I liked is that it doesn’t follow the blueprint of a usual WW2 novel.
As to what I didn’t quite like was that the dialogues (especially in the beginning of the book) seemed a little bit too un-human, as in, too perfected and edited, it just didn’t sound the way real people actually talk. Also, I felt like the relationship between Allison and Nathan developed a bit too quickly in the beginning.