A review by tessisreading2
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum

4.0

The language can occasionally get a little too overwrought - it's a work of history, not a spy novel! - but the story is compelling enough to overcome that flaw, and the research is (well, as best I can tell) extremely thorough. Blum does a good job of keeping the narrative compelling and the momentum moving forward; really the only time it bogs down is towards the end, when we learn that one nest of spies (which we have been "following" in "real time," as it were) were not actually uncovered until many years after the war. That was a little jarring - Blum over all did a good job of pulling all the disparate strands together, so that one seemed almost not to belong. A really gripping read, even if at times it seemed to be trying too hard.