Mike Murray
What if, in the darkest days of World War II, British commandos had killed Hitler and replaced him with… a not-overly-bright third rate Hitler impersonator? This is the preposterous question that Mike Murray answers in “Raven”. It’s to Murray’s credit as a story-teller that despite the unlikely premise and despite some poor editing, this is un-put-downable pulp at it’s best. The thriller genre has fallen on hard times, but the story of Archie Smythes, actor, doing business as Adolph Hitler, dictator is a sing that it’s not dead yet.