Review: Terrific Historical Thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
This serpentine historical thriller is a thought provoking, highly interesting read.Set in the early Sixties in New York, the novel captures that evocative era perfectly. Some very good descriptions of areas of New York in that era. BLACK FOREST introduces Arthur Murray a private investigator who survived captivity by the Germans in World War Two. He later hunts down and interrogates some of the Nazis he faced. Abigail Drew is an Israeli agent for whom Arthur is torn between his feelings for her and the threat to his family presented by a cadre of Nazis, rocket scientists for Adolf Hitler.David Thayer uses terse, hardboiled narrative and seduces you into a world that is both captivating and frighening. Thayer explores with great depths the unresolved conflicts between father and son.For a debut novel, BLACK FOREST shows that Thayer is an up and coming wrtier who shows great promise of better things to come. This is a terrific read.