chapolito

As the only male in America over the age of 25 who isn't a serious World War II fetishist, I was not particularly enthused about the prospect of this. However: this is a pretty nifty little piece of crime fiction predicated on the notion of Hitler winning World War II and achieving detente with the U.S. Though maddeningly hide-bound in its conventions (there is a beautiful, plucky reporter with a checkered past, for example), this is an awfully surprising little read. Once one gets over the hurdle of believing that there could be an SS functionary who wasn't all that sold on Hitler, it moves smartly and briskly, never entirely turning into the unintelligible gobbledygook that often happens to intricate political thrillers.

2020-12-30 19:16