Title: This Spear A Dull Instrument
Product review: After reading it I wonder if I read the same book that others talked about. This is one of those novels that is so bad, you end up reading it just to find out how it ends: One dimensional characters, pseudo-science, the usual Nazi occult conspiracy, a plot that gets sillier by the moment --- hell, even the Hell's Angels are in this one --- and a entirely predictable ending. In other words, Young Frankenstein meets Jane Fonda meets Austin Powers. Ironically, Mr. Greenwald writes well enough to keep the pages turning but I ended up finishing the book for the wrong reasons. Something like reading a comic book for the art. If World War II genre is what you like I would suggest John Katzenbach (Shadow Man), Loup Durand (Daddy), and anything by Alan Furst (but especially The Polish Officer).
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