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Summary: Very entertaining and convincing
Review: The first Glenn Meade book that I read was Brandenburg. It was an unbelievable, fascinating but film-like story. However The Sands of the Sakkara has a more convincing plot, well described settings and powerful surprises that leave you with your mouth open. At some point the reader might think the story is predictable but the desperation and emotions of the characters will amaze you. The sentence "In a stunning story that reaches from the teeming streets of Berlin to the feet of the great pyramids, three former friends are about to meet again: around a mission to assassinate FDR," grabbed my attention and convinced me to read this book. Can you imagine if Germany had won the war? Well, read this book and find out "how close Germany came to winning the war."
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Summary: Glenn Meade? Who's he?
Review: Before my Dentist recommened The Sands of Sakkara by a man named Glenn Meade I had never in my life heard of any author by the name of Meade. The very next day I went to Barnes and Noble and bought a book by a author named Mr. Meade. The book is written to a level that rivals that of any author such as Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, or Jack Higgins. This is probably the first book that has really kept me wanting to lose sleep to keep turning the pages. The characters are indroduced in a very unique way that makes you think that they are just a normal bunch of friends that love being together. Then, when the war starts, they are separated- Harry ends up as a U.S. intelligence agent sationed in Cairo- Jack is a agent for the opposing force-and Rachel is killed on a Turkish ship headed for Istanbul,or was she? Rachel survived and was picked up by a German ship and put in a concintration camp.When an idea to kill FDR and Churchhill is brought up by the Gestapo, Jack is chosen to head it with two other agents and Rachel. But why Rachel? The question is answered easily. I'm not going to ruin the twist at the end, but it's something like the ending in the movie The Sixth Sense. If you haven't seen it bear with me. Everything just strolls along until BOOM! everything changes and heads off in the opposite direction. All the clues are there in the book and in the Sixth Sense, but you ignore it. Anyway, I will stop babbling on and on and let you get a head start to the book store. Read it, you won't regret the lost sleep.
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Summary: A Perfect Blend
Review: As a lover of military / terrorism / suspense novels, I give this book a 5 star rating. The author's use of a topic I myself had not even heard about, the attempted assasination of the President and Prime Minister durring the end of the Second World War was incredibly interesting. The novel was filled with ancient archeology, war time facts, incredible suspense where I could not force myself to put the book down, and action sequences that sent my imagination racing. The best part about the book was the heavy implication of romance throughout, something I would not think I would enjoy in a book about the subject, but I was proven wrong and the book was phenominal, even the ending was extremely unsuspected and intriguing. The Sands of Sakkara gets two thumbs up.
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Summary: Sands of Sakkara
Review: Read all 3 Meade books. This is the best. Blend of Cussler,Higgins and Ludlum. Nice combo of archaeology, intrigue and an ending that even caught me off guard. I'll re-read this one!
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Summary: Not a Snow Wolf
Review: If this had been the first of his books I probably would have liked it better. It doesn't have the quality of the other two and is too much like Brandenburg Gate (the love triangle).
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Summary: I LOVED IT
Review: This book was incredible. I was hooked after the first chapter, it was just great how he wrote the entire book. You can almost hear the sand blowing. This is a book about friendship, love and...oh yeah a plot to assainate Franklin Roosevelt during WWII. If you like action books espically set against WWII backdrops pick this up you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: exciting, suspenseful
Review: All the right ingredients: strong plot, characters easy to empathize with and just enough history to make you wonder .... I rate it as one of the best I've read this year (out of about 60)
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Summary: Plot Structure, Dialect Were Annoying
Review: I've not read this author's other works, so I can't compare, but two things made the book less enjoyable than it might have been: First, the plot mechanism of Harry Weaver narrating his story to the journalist was patently unbelievable, because (obviously) many things that occurred in the story could not have been known by Col. Weaver. The story would have been good without this convention, and more convincing. Second, it was distracting to have all the characters, whether British, American or German, speaking in British dialect (e.g. beginning sentences with "Right,...", "organising" a trip, "in future", "in hospital", etc.). It seemed like the author paid attention to most other details of characterization, but hearing, for example, General Schellenberger talk like a Brit detracted from the effectiveness of the story.
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Summary: A Rebuttal To Review By Paul Harris
Review: In an earlier review of this book I stated that The Sands Of Sakkara is an entertaining WWII thriller that will hold your interest, although it is somewhat predictable and not as good as Meade's two other thrillers--Snow Wolf and Brandenburg. My main reason for issuing this review is to rebut the comment by Paul Harris who disagreed with my and another reviewer's facts--that Snow Wolf was Meade's first book and that Brandenburg was his second. Mr. Harris and another reviewer (HT) say that Brandenburg came first and Snow Wolf second. Since both of these reviewers are from Great Britain, it seems that the order they describe was how they were released in their countries (Scotland and Ireland, respectively). However, this definitely was not the case in the U.S. My copy of Snow Wolf states the copyright date as 1995 and the released date as May,1996. My copy of Brandenburg states the copyright date as 1997 and the release date as June,1997. So, Mr. Harris is incorrect in saying that I and an earlier reviewer made a genuine mistake in our facts, and suggests that we verify the facts before "arrogantly dismissing the correct information." As it turns out, it appears that we both indicated the correct information in our respective countries. It would have been nice for Mr. Harris to have made sure that the facts I and the other U.S. reviewer stated were incorrect before he wrote a review primarily for the purpose of saying they were incorrect.
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Summary: It is excellent
Review: Glenn Meade has done again an excellent job. Fiction and reality are webbed together in a real fantastic book. As a native German I must say there is only a small point. The German words he used were not corrected by his lecturer. It is called Leibstandarte not Liebstandarte, Fräulein or Fraeulein - not Fraulein. But that book at itself, 100% excellent stuff - right from the beginning to the very last words. If you like Snow Wulf, it is perfect. And if you additional like stories and fiction of WW2 it is a must. By the way, I think if got the UK-edition, the Hardcover was different (without Swastika)
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