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Title: A Thriller
Review: I see that several other reviewers didn't like this novel, but I loved it. The concept of a boy being chosen and used as a spy/secret agent was intriguing to me, especially since the story is relatively true. I was shocked at many of the things he was expected to do, but I can't rate the book as bad because some of the characters are barely civilized. It just kept me reading and reading, no boring recitation of the facts and people, like an official biography tends to have. I learned a lot about the people and planning behind many of the WWII battles, and it helped that I knew something of that period of history beforehand. My big complaints are the end, or rather the lack of one, and the lack of a "debriefing" about how much was true and how the author got his information. So it's not Pulitzer Prize material--it's still a great read!
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