Review: Post-War Intrigue At Its Best
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2013
Johnny Fedora, a colorful character that was handling counterintelligence missions for her Majesty's Secret Service long before James Bond came on the scene. This Traitor, Death, known to many Americans by the title - The Gestapo file, is the second in a series of 16 books written by Desmond Cory, featuring the super spy Johnny Fedora.In the kill or be killed game of espionage and counterintelligence, Johnny Fedora is a legend. You know you're going to enjoy a book when the protagonist is known only by a code name. The Nightingale was one of Hitler's secret weapons, she was purported to be as ruthless as she was beautiful. British intelligence believes that if anyone stands a chance of bringing back, not the power successfully, it would be the Nightingale. Being made aware of her access to millions and unrecovered German gold and a network of underlings that are every bit as ruthless as she, they go into action.Johnny Fedora is given this assignment because he was a soldier who had fought the Nazi threat, and no man knew more about their treacherous methods than he, having gone toe to toe with them in the past. Armed with a new face and a new name, he was given the task to succeed where everyone else had failed. He could not afford to lose the fate of the free world depended on his success.You have just entered the world of British Intelligence's very first agent that was given license to KILL. Desmond Cory started Fedora's career, a full 10 years before Ian Fleming first put pen to paper to create the very suave James Bond. Cory's books are written in full British style and you will find every stereotypical element that this genre is known for, within these pages.Desmond Cory spy thrillers are intense and suspenseful everything you want a postwar British spy book to be. It keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Johnny Fedora's mission is full of great moments unexpected, and you never know who is trustworthy until the very end. This is a page turner, so much so that you will be inspired to read more of this wonderful collection.