Review: Nice Try
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
Hitler is replaced by Heydrich, and Germany wins WWII.  The story generally flows well, although  the prose and the  characters are flat.  Clarke has a very irritating trait of "announcing" the significance for the future, a cliche that went out in the 1930s and should have stayed dead.  In addition, there is lots of stuff about spycraft which, while interesting, is not really relevant to the story.  Oddly, despite the flat prose, he does a good job painting the flawed British intelligence services, the constant infighting of Nazi factions, and the bleak grey Russian gulag state, which helps make the reading interesting.