Review: A Different Side of Michael Wallace
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2012
"Blood of Vipers" isn't your usual Michael Wallace thriller, but it's a spell-binding novella that starts fast and doesn't let go. An American pilot goes down behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany and has to avoid capture, a difficult task in itself. But it's made tougher as he gets attached to a local family, and before long he's the American savior to a group of innocent Germans who fear Russian invaders as well as their own relentless Nazi leaders who refuse to admit the war is lost. Wallace carries the pilot through one layered war-is-hell complication after another, trying to sidestep Germans and Russians, sometimes winding up in or near the paths of battle. With exhaustion the unseen additional enemy as he dares not give in to his need for sleep, the pilot hopes to reach his fellow Americans to save himself and his newfound followers. Lots of twists, and the reader can get lost in the pilot's point-of-view, through which the entire story is told. Well worth the read.