Review: Prequel to a novel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2011
"Tracking Down Gruppenfuhrer Kunitz (Simon Wolfe Mystery)" is a prequel to author David del Bourgo's novel, Prague Spring.  Before Simon Wolfe was a SFPD inspector he worked in Europe killing Nazis along with his lover, Mara. The story begins in 1949 Paris.Simon and Mara are after an adjutant to a German higher up, and if they could get to the adjutant then they hoped to get the information out of him about the whereabouts of SS gruppenfuhrer Kunitz.  They wanted to find him before he got to Spain and with the help of Francisco Franco, got shipped off to a country such as Argentina to avoid being captured for war crimes.  With a silenced .22 Berretta, Simon and Mara hoped to kill their target, the adjutant, outside his fourth-floor walkup.  Police in Paris were so busy with other crimes and duties that they probably wouldn't be alerted  until the adjutant's body was found the next day. His neighbor was usually out all night and came home in the morning. Just what Simon and Mara would do if that plan didn't work meant that they would have to go to plan B.The story is short and is somewhat intriguing.  The novel, Prague Spring, based on what is in this story should be much better because of the continuation of the story and what information is given in the description shows that it gets much more complicated.  I enjoyed reading this and I always like novels bssed on WWII history.