This book was off to a good start with me based on the synopsis alone - I love fiction based either during or after the second world war, so in that sense, that was a star earned from the start.However, it turns out that this is a really excellent, cleverly written book.It tells the story of Jake...
To those to whom names like Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, and Lawrence ring a bell, as well as those for whom Trinity tolls, Los Alamos is a terrific “period piece.” Naturally, it is set in the latter years of WWII in the midst of those working on the Manhattan Project. Karon’s feel for the period ...
Just Couldn't FinishI love to read, and I almost never not finish a book. And I tried so hard to finish this book, I really did. But this is just one book that I absolutely could not finish. The Prodigal Spy had real potential at first. The first section of the book, which describes the time in w...
Just walk in the park, Dieter had said, and I’ll come. But how would he know? There was morning traffic on Greifswalder Strasse, a roar of trucks loud enough to cover the sound of the airlift until they stopped for a red light and the droning came back, there even when you weren’t aware of it, li...
“Just wait. I shouldn’t be long.” “With the meter? You’d be better off with an all-day rate.” A higher fare. “All right,” Leon said, not wanting to argue, someone with money in his pockets. He looked down the street. No cars idling. Unless the taxi itself were the tail, now tracking his every mov...