The Berlin Warning

By Nicholas Guild

Book Overview

Read a novel as cleanly composed and well-paced as Nicholas Guild's "Berlin Warning" and you'll never again be satisfied with ordinary thrillers.New York TimesEqually enjoyable is Nicholas Guild's "The Berlin Warning", a Manhunt thriller which is far better written than most of the genre. . .Books that linger in the mind not only for the power of their plotting but also for the depth of their characterization are rare, but this is one.Daily TelegraphThis is an excellent novel on three levels. It is a well-paced spy story and a good piece of accurate historical fiction. And it is disturbingly thought-provokingEl Paso Herald PostThis is a swift and savage thriller that switches from hunted to hunter as it moves steadily across wartime Europe to a shattering conclusion on the streets of Washington. Guild constructs realistic and complex heroes and villains, as well as a strong supporting cast.Library Journal"What we need is an American." That was the word from the Whitehall spymasters. It was October 27, 1941, and Hitler was victorious from Calais to the outskirts of Moscow. Only Britain held out against him, fighting alone, stretched to the limit. Her one hope of survival was that the United States would enter the war, and the Germans were hell-bent to prevent that. It all came down to one desperate gamble.What they needed was an American like David Steadman. Barely recovered from a shrapnel wound sustained in the Spanish Civil War, at the request of the woman he loves, he sets out to steal the biggest secret of the war.THE BERLIN WARNING is a novel of love and war, set in a nightmare world where duty and passion are traps for the unwary, and death is never more than one miscalculation away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08QRKV7HW
• ISBN13: 9798581923207
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A well-written and lively example of the genre

This is a great book if you are a fan of the genre. The premise is the Nazi Foreign Office tries to send a warning to Washington about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor in order to avoid a war with the US and see it locked in a war with Japan. The hero (who is placed in the odd dilemma of either helping the Nazis or betraying US forces in Hawaii) must work his way across Europe and back to America fighting the Nazi SS (who are against the initiative) and the British (who want the US at war with Germany). If you like this kind of book (the Eye of the Needle, etc) this is a really good one in that its premise is very straightforward. It is much more realistic than the ridiculous, often complex and usually implausible conspiracies upon which these books are usually built. It also avoids nutty encounters with historical figures (another pet peeve of mine). The action is lively, starts out quick, and maintains a constant pace throughout the book. I also found it refreshing that it did not move too far into unrealistic feats of daring-do. I would get this book on Kindle if I could. You will not be disappointed.