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A review by billymac1962
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
3.0
It takes a pretty good writer to pull this off:
Write an espionage tale about a British spy who is in a race against time to determine what secret the Germans have in mind to thwart the Allied Invasion of Europe. Now throw in the fact that he's a werewolf without making the whole thing sound stupid.
Yeah, it sounds really stupid, and the front cover of my paperback does nothing to dispel that.
But it really works! Of course, it helps if you're the type of reader who can suspend disbelief and just sit back and enjoy the story.
For the most part, the novel goes back and forth from the espionage tail, er...tale, to Michael's childhood beginnings as a werewolf and growth into a man-beast.
I preferred his coming of age chapters to the espionage parts, but not by a whole lot: the whole novel was very entertaining. If I have one gripe, it's that I felt the story was a little long at 600 pages. I was more than ready for a wrap-up at around 500. And, well, there was a moment there when the villain, with our hero in his grasp, makes the cliched bone-headed move of totally spilling the beans of the big secret and how they're going to pull it all off, Mwahahaha!
Oh well, this is pulp, and it is all about fun, so it is what it is. Fun stuff, and I doubt anyone who would be interested in reading this would be expecting to take things in here too seriously. So there.
Incidentally, thanks, Robert, for including Canadians in the Normandy D-Day Invasion. Too many Americans forget that we were there, too.
Write an espionage tale about a British spy who is in a race against time to determine what secret the Germans have in mind to thwart the Allied Invasion of Europe. Now throw in the fact that he's a werewolf without making the whole thing sound stupid.
Yeah, it sounds really stupid, and the front cover of my paperback does nothing to dispel that.
But it really works! Of course, it helps if you're the type of reader who can suspend disbelief and just sit back and enjoy the story.
For the most part, the novel goes back and forth from the espionage tail, er...tale, to Michael's childhood beginnings as a werewolf and growth into a man-beast.
I preferred his coming of age chapters to the espionage parts, but not by a whole lot: the whole novel was very entertaining. If I have one gripe, it's that I felt the story was a little long at 600 pages. I was more than ready for a wrap-up at around 500. And, well, there was a moment there when the villain, with our hero in his grasp, makes the cliched bone-headed move of totally spilling the beans of the big secret and how they're going to pull it all off, Mwahahaha!
Oh well, this is pulp, and it is all about fun, so it is what it is. Fun stuff, and I doubt anyone who would be interested in reading this would be expecting to take things in here too seriously. So there.
Incidentally, thanks, Robert, for including Canadians in the Normandy D-Day Invasion. Too many Americans forget that we were there, too.