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A Night Of Long Knives (2010)

by Rebecca Cantrell(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0765320452 (ISBN13: 9780765320452)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Forge Books

series

Hannah Vogel

review 1: This is such a complicated plot that it helps to know in great detail the events and personna of the Nazi movement in the mid-1930s. I thought I did but not as well as this author does! It is a thrilling and somewhat unbelievable story set in a truly unbelievable time. I don't know why so many mysteries are still set in and before WW2. I wasn't born in time to be familiar with that time period. And I'm pretty old!
review 2: This second outing in the Hannah Vogel thriller series takes the reader back to the Germany of the 1930s and continues the fine work that Cantrell did the last time around. This time, Hannah and her young "son" return to Germany partly by choice and partly by way of a diverted airship. And that "choice" part is one of the weak links here, as... more there was simply no real reason for Vogel to be on that blimp in the first place, even if it wasn't supposed to ever cross into German airspace. Granted, a reason was needed to get her back to Germany from South America, but I wish that something more believable (or that would have at least made Hannah look less foolish at that moment) had been used to set the table for this story. But once I got past that bit and the way that she escaped her initial capture, things go very well story-wise. Her entire mission here is to get her "son" back, as he was ultimately not quite so lucky at avoiding capture, and he is the real reason for the interest in Hannah in the first place. So we have Hannah making her way through Munich and then Berlin in her search for the boy, and it all makes for a compelling read with no shortage of top-notch atmospheric elements. In short, this is a novel that requires a bit of tongue-biting over a few of its table-setting elements, but one which then plays out as a terrific read and a great way to spend some time with Ms Vogel once again as she goes up against the ever-growing Nazi powers that surround her. less

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