Picking up where “Fox on the Rhine” left off, Dobson and Niles continue their believable and engrossing alternate history of World War II. This book finds Patton and Rommel on the same side facing the Soviets in the suburbs of Berlin. I hope Dobson and Niles have more alternate military history in the pipeline.
Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy, whose writing has been going down hill since “Patriot Games”, has cranked out another dull tale. It used to be that you could rely on Clancy for a last 100 pages that made the previous 400 worth slogging through. The conclusion of “Teeth of the Tiger” isn’t worth the trip. For the record, it’s about twin brothers and Jack Ryan’s nephew, who are recruited by a secret anti-terrorist agency. There’s not a single surprise in the book.
Joseph Finder
A workplace prank puts Adam Cassidy at the mercy of an evil CEO, who uses Adam to spy on the kindly CEO of another company. The rewards are substantial, but Adam soon begins to have moral qualms about deceiving the new boss. But things are not what they seem.
This is a tense thriller, a spy story set in cubicle land that contains some surprising plot twists.
Brendan DuBois
“Resurrection Day” is set in 1972, ten years after the short nuclear war that started during the Cuban Missile Crisis, obliterated the USSR, and left a debilitated United States a pariah among nations. A Boston newspaper reporter investigating what looks like a routine murder doesn’t back off when his story is killed by the military censors. During the course of the book he discovers what really happened in October of 1962 and why people in power don’t want it revealed. It’s well-plotted and nicely paced; a high point is the description of an abandoned Manhattan, off-limits because of the three nuclear bomb craters that surround it.
