Review: Good plot but climax gets away from the author
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2014
Always enjoy a ripping tale about Nazis - especially the post-war "what-if" plots that keep various Nazis war criminals alive and lurking about the globe trying to create the Fourth Reich.  This one is just plausible enough to be believable and entertaining.The characters in this book are pretty compelling, interesting constructs, but there are a few sentimental touches that strain credulity and dull the edge.  As well, the author needs a better editor - way too many notes, Mozart.At the end, during the exciting finish, Brown suffers a bad case of verbal diarrhea.  Every thought, every glance, every movement is recorded and even more annoying, each incident is described from the perspective of the different characters.  We get it - it's cold or difficult or painful or sad or...whatever.  Great writers assume the reader has an imagination and then they cultivate it with carefully chosen, tightly constructed images.