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Summary: THE RUNNER is right up there with EYE OF THE NEEDLE
Review: The Runner is right up there with my all-time favorite international thrillers: Eye of the Needle, Day of the Jackal and The Eagle has Landed.My thanks to Christopher Reich for writing a suspense novel that is both extraordinarily exciting and intelligent. His book made me remember just how great a great thriller can be.
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Summary: Not bad, but don't recite the authors german quotes..
Review: The story is not bad, the plot fast, but despite of some german-speaking ancestors of the author, he's quoting of german phrases is FUBAR (f.. up beyond all recognition). Although the story is quite beefy; if I would be a relative of General Patton or Field Marshal Montgomery, I would sue the author.
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Summary: Read better.
Review: The story is Okay. At times predictable and the last few pages are peppered with spelling mistakes which i find very unprofesional. Slow at times. If the time period interests you and you are not looking for a fast paced read, go for it.
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Summary: Interesting Writing of History!
Review: This book gave a new twist to history. Eric Syess,a German olympic star becomes a vivious German SS officer. He is imprisoned by the Allies for committing an atrocity. Syess escapes and is pursued by Devlin Judge whose brother was killed in the atrocity. This begins a race across Germany. Along the way Judge inherits Syess's former girlfriend.In the meantime you are introduced to the "Circle of Fire" who wants the rule of the Nazis to continue. There is also a plot introduced to influence world events as they are about to unfold. One of the main line
conspirators will surprise you. All of this makes for a very good book. Action packed from start to finish. You will enjoy it.
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Summary: Reich Strikes Again!
Review: This book is every bit as good as his first, "Numbered Account", in fact I liked it even more. Mr. Reich does not take the easy way out by using basic Historical fact and fictionalizing the balance of his book. The result is still Fiction, but researched with a Historian's eye, and some clever "what if?" scenarios. The result is a hybrid that is truly interesting and not just entertainment. I believe this allowed him to bring "The Runner" to readers that is fresh book, even though the main event it is based upon is not. The book has some nice plot twists, what makes them so slick, is that they are not so transparent that they reveal the balance of the book when the first hint appears. When you think you may have the story line solved, another bit comes along, and Mr. Reich pulls the carpet from beneath you. Mr. Reich is no one time winner. If this second effort is any indicator of the future, the next dozen will only continue his success. Buy it. No regrets.
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Summary: Covers some pretty familiar territory
Review: This book is interesting enough, but no better than "Eye of the Needle" or "Day of the Jackal," in my opinion, and not as gripping as "The Odessa File." A military lawyer is on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who has escaped from a detention camp but has not fled the country. Evidence emerges of a planned high-profile political assassination. As the lawyer draws closer to his quarry, he begins to suspect that members of the American military are co-conspirators in the plot. Some of the elements are pretty familiar: the former reform school boy who made good and wants to prove himself, the angry man gunning for the murderer of his brother, the ruthless, arrogant super-spy that nothing can stop, the mentor who turns out to have been corrupted, the beautiful ice-princess who once loved the villain but finds herself reluctantly falling for the hero, the psycho military commander, the diabolically clever assassin who makes his way through hundreds of security staff, all armed to the teeth, and just sidles up to his target, and so forth. The author's research shows in his detail about the desperate life of survivors in Occupied Germany after the Second World War. On the other hand, there are irritating lapses, though they are more on the order of minor editorial matters than anything else. A pallet in a warehouse is spelled "palate"; a military band is said to be playing a "Souza" march; a string quartet with piano accompaniment is performing, and one character speculates that they are performing a violin concerto, while another wishes they had played the Eroica symphony, either of which would be absurd for such a small group; finally, an assassin is compared to Gavrilo Princip, the Serb anarchist whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand provoked World War I--and who is referred to in the book as "Princeps." Finally, as another reviewer has noted, the author has extrapolated from certain known tendencies of General Patton to draw a conclusion that is sheer libel, if it were possible to libel the dead. Some years ago, a spy thriller called "The Glendower Legacy" was written, in which evidence is uncovered that Washington may have collaborated with the British during the American Revolution, but somehow, that plot device was handled more evenhandedly, without making you feel that Washington's memory and reputation had been completely desecrated. This book is good enough to read on an airplane or at the beach, but it's no great accomplishment, in my opinion.
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Summary: A Great History Novel!
Review: This is a great read. Mr. Reich puts one into Post WW II Germany. The book is deep with texture and well researched. A book that you do not want to miss.
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Summary: 5 Stars
Review: This is a real page-turner, with an old Nazi still a threat, and the hero having to stop him. The top two "surviving Nazis" novels I've read have been "The Boys from Brazil" and "The Shape: A Novel of International Suspense." And "The Runner" is right up there with those two.
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Summary: Another typical end of WWII thriller
Review: This is another typical end WWII thriller of which you probably have read dozens. Its been done before and better. The book is lightweight fun yet you can't help feeling like you have read the same thing before... kind of like all romance novels seem to be the same. It is easy to right about the "good" war where Germans are devils and Americans are angels (usually) even if while we know things are never really this black and white. In this way the story is very predictable and one dimentional yet if this is the way you like your stories then this one is for you.
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Summary: Who Can You Trust?
Review: This is one of those feasts for devotees of conspiracies. If you are a true paranoid you will have no problem in relating to a tale where most of the members of the U.S. Army are traitors. Then again I was in the Navy, so I really don't know what goes on in the Army. Our story begins in Germany during the chaos of mid 1945. Our hero is an Army major, Devlin Judge, who is chasing down vicious ex SS major Erich Seyss who was responsible for the murder of Judge's brother. It appears that Seyss has been employed to conduct one last operation for the greater glory of Germany. He is to wreak some sort of havoc at the Potsdam conference to be attended by Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. Go ahead, your turn. You fill in the story blanks. That's right our hero is right on the heels of the villain but can't quite catch him. A pretty woman enters the story. People that should be trusted really let us down. Excitement mounts as we near the Potsdam city limits. Stalin and his new friends eat borscht unaware that danger threatens. I'm not trying to imply that the book is a bad one. It really isn't. The post WWII Germany setting is quite interesting. The story hums along just fine with lots of thrills and spills engineered to keep you awake an extra hour at night. The only problem is that the plot doesn't vary much from the standard formula for stories involving the good guy who is one step behind the bad guy who is about to destroy the world as we know it. Oh yes, there's that strange ballistics lesson that we are given. Our villain has just shot a man in the head in order to steal his uniform. Author Reich states "It had been a clean shot, barrel pressed to skin so as not to risk bloodying the uniform." I guess when you shoot an officer in the head the bullet just rattles around inside the skull instead of exiting, and soiling those nice khakis with blood and brain fragments
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