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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
A genuinely intense, interesting and emotive spy thriller set in an alternate history Germany where the Nazi's won the war, Hitler is turning 75 and President Kennedy is about to visit the Reich. The story follows disolutioned and unbelieving Nazi detective March, whom gets caught up in a conspiracy after a body of a Nazi official washes up on the shores of the Rhine.
Harris does a brilliant job really selling you on the alternative history by including real people, places and events amongst the fiction that seems like it could be real. The story is interesting and continues at a solid pace with characters you genuinely learn about and want to know more.
It's phenomenal historical fiction.
Harris does a brilliant job really selling you on the alternative history by including real people, places and events amongst the fiction that seems like it could be real. The story is interesting and continues at a solid pace with characters you genuinely learn about and want to know more.
It's phenomenal historical fiction.
I did like this one. It was slow starting, but then it picked up in the middle. I was interested to see how he would do the alternate. I liked the way he put Germany in place of the Soviet Union, and still gave it an ideological spin, but different than the Soviets. I would recommend this to someone who liked WWII, mysteries, John LeCarre etc.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Estamos ante una hipotetica situación, 1964 y Hitler ha ganado y muestra la hegemonia nazi.
Un caso policiaco donde la investigación alterna con la vida diaria en Berlin; politica, policial, laboral…
El caso que trae entre manos, Xavi el investigador nazi, parecia algo sencillo pero se complica y ya no se puede fiar de nadie. Con ayuda de una periodista americana llegará a la “solución final”.
Al principio no me ha convencido mucho la historia por ser una situación hipotetica. Pero poco a poco historia engancha y se lee muy rápido.
Un caso policiaco donde la investigación alterna con la vida diaria en Berlin; politica, policial, laboral…
El caso que trae entre manos, Xavi el investigador nazi, parecia algo sencillo pero se complica y ya no se puede fiar de nadie. Con ayuda de una periodista americana llegará a la “solución final”.
Al principio no me ha convencido mucho la historia por ser una situación hipotetica. Pero poco a poco historia engancha y se lee muy rápido.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Recommended by a mate, wasn't sure about this at first but it really grew on me. It took a while to get going, but seemed to accelerate rapidly once it did. Pili's actions towards the end of the book made me very sad.
This alternative history is set in Germany 1964, where Germany did not lose the war; hinky politician Joseph Kennedy, Jr. is president of the U.S.; King Edward and Queen Wallis preside in England; and America is supporting the Russians in their guerilla warfare against Germany. The cold war is between the U.S. and The Reich, which doesn't directly control Europe, but the other countries won't buck its policies. Everyone believes that six million Jewish people and others undesirable to the Nazi regime were merely relocated "east." The main character, Xavier March, is a detective who is far from a revolutionary, but he never really fits the Nazi mold. So, he's not about to let things slide when high-ranking Nazis who had power since the '30s and '40s start to turn up dead, with their deaths being papered over by the Gestapo. With the help of an American reporter, he uncovers that the Gestapo always seems to be hovering around the deaths of these men, and these men all have a certain 1942 meeting at Wannsee in common. It's a tense and engrossing book as you join March in unraveling the conspiracy and sidestepping death and torture to reveal a truth that will nix an upcoming detente between America and Nazi Germany.
Eigentlich zwei hochinteressante Handlungsstränge (alternative Nachkriegszeit und Krimimotiv), aber Harris schafft es irgendwie nicht so ganz Diese "gut" zu verknüpfen. Heraus kommt ein ganz nett zu lesender Roman (mit zahlreichen unrealistischen James Bond Zufällen), der aber im Endeffekt viel Luft nach oben lässt. Harris schreibt übrigens im Vorwort schon, dass dies nicht sein bester Roman ist.