What do You think about The League Of Night And Fog (2003)?
Fast-paced thriller. Many storylines which all merge into one by the end. It's been a long time since I had read anything by this author and this novel brings back characters from both The Fraternity of the Stone and The Brotherhood of the Rose.Men in their 70's were disappearing, some were holocaust survivors and former Mossad; others were former SS officers that had gone into hiding around the world. Many of the adult children of the disappeared men are scared & confused over the disappearances and fear they are targets too, a few with special skills are in the hunt to find their fathers. A large arms deal is going down. The mix brings together former CIA and Mossad operatives, freelance assassins, and a religious order who uses money & violence to keep secrets.A thrill ride that takes one from the deserts of Egypt and Israel to Australia, Canada,the Alps and Rome.
—Chris
I have a weakness for remembering names, so my habit of taking notes when I read proved essential for me to follow this story. There is no protagonist. There are three teams of two people each working independently to solve the mystery of the disappearance of many men in their 70’s. All of the missing men have connections to WWII and the holocaust. The story and the characters move all over the globe as the mystery unfolds. Using my notes, I was able to follow the story and keep track of the characters. Good and evil can be found in the teams, so that it is well into the story before the reader begins to realize who the good guys are and who the bad ones are. The story was well written and interesting.
—Glen Stott
The final book of David Morrell's excellent trilogy is a notch below the previous two books (The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity of the Stone). It's still quite entertaining, with relentless pace and a great attention to detail. The main problem is that it is a virtually identical word count to the previous books, and yet has three to four times the characters and many more plot threads. It feels like a highlight reel of a book at times rushing from one scene to the next. My edition goes to 400 pages (of moderately large print), and I think Morrell should have added another 150 or 200 pages. The ending feels a bit contrived. That seems like a lot of negatives for a book I'm rating four stars, but it's because Morrell in every other way still wrote a very good thriller. The other two books of the trilogy could stand on their own, with no recurring characters and only a general theme that unites them. It is this final book that the protagonists of the first two books finally meet, and the stories collide. The other two books could be read in any order or as stand alone novels. This is a book you should not read until you have read both the preceding novels.
—David
