Review: Fast paced and well written.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2013
A war-time espionage thriller would not be my first choice of genre when it comes to literary fiction but this story has it all, mystery, suspense, action, thrills and even a little bit of romance but not too much!You are gripped from the opening and not let go until the end. The story of Jim Heydrich, the nephew of one of the most powerful men in Hitler's Third Reich and his attempts to stay alive whilst trying to work out where his loyalties lie, is it to the Fatherland, where he was born or to Canada and the Allies where he was raised? Whose side are his fellow actors, in the stage play that he is touring Europe with, on? Who can he trust and who will be his downfall.Jim must work through these problems as the troupe travel across Nazi occupied Holland and Italy under the noses of the SS whilst trying to perform Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband and try to stay alive.