Review: Not consistently believable on so many levels.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2012
The story has the, sadly, usual lack of editing problems common to self published novels. The story is ... workmanlike ... for the most part, but never rises beyond that. The action scenes are, mostly, OK ...But. And there's amost definite series of these. The actions of the WW2 era characters are, frankly, not believable in key areas. Promotions for the main future character ... nope. Not at/to the very high level that is done in the novel. Not in the UK Armed forces. Doubtful even in the US armed forces (and the future characters not contacting the latter? Goes beyond what I would consider reasonable.The main future character being a not so closet alcoholic? Even given the premise, of last second decisions forced on the future powers that be unexpectedly, that I find difficult to accept, too.The author also seems to have no understanding at any level of economics. The mysterious Secret Agent From The Future has evidenlty spent umpteen years gathering together BILLIIONS of $$$ worth of gold bullion ... without any of the inevitable worldwide effects on the price of gold, historically, and with no-one noticing the inevitable. And he then compounds it by completely failing to understand that Gold does NOT equal manufacturing capacity. The author seems to think that escaping the Nazi invasion of the UK with all that gold somehow equals the ability to turn. it, magically, one suspects, into finished warfighting materiel. This is simply so wrong on so many levels that its laughable.Finally, the Nazis From The Future are, it seems, able to magically manufacture massive amounts of (for the time) hyperadvanced warfighting tech of all sorts without anyone noticing or responding, Even including warships ... things which no amount of hiding coul actually hide. And, of course, all the real world resource constraints (like not having enough steel to make all the tanks, guns, planes and ships they wanted to, as it was, historically) are also magicked away ... which probably won't worry most people who really don't know what these were or even that they existed.The economics, however, is so silly that it's unforgiveable!!!