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The Stonebreakers
by
Philip Hook
Paperback, 408 pages
Published
September 1995
by Hodder & Stoughton
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waste of time. Fortunately did as audio, so not prime time, but kept hoping it would improve and it didn't. Plot totally full of holes. Characters are unsympathetic. Interesting plot twist at the end but not worth it. There are so many better WWII art theft books out there (the nonfiction are even more compelling than the fictional ones), don't waste your time on this. Instead read The Rape of Europa by Lynn Nicholas, or The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano.
This book is pointless. Its ending renders the rest of the book a complete waste of time.
Audio -- 2.5 -- a kind of international mystery of lost art in Dresden Germany during the Alied bombings and the present search for lost art.
So intensely boring that I dropped it halfway. The author might have good knowledge on the subject but he is no storyteller, and it is certainly not a "masterful work of intrigue and deception" .. "or a new voice in suspense fiction" as the back cover claims. Good grief...wast as waste.
The first review disappeared! I wanted to read a book by Philip Hook, an art expert on the British Antiques Roadshow. I ordered this online from Julie's Bookshop Ltd. in Consett, Co. Durham, England. It cost me less than $10 Canadian for the book plus shipping.
He is a good writer. The story is very suspenseful and keeps you interested right to the end. There is some good information on the bombing of Dresden during WWII.
He is a good writer. The story is very suspenseful and keeps you interested right to the end. There is some good information on the bombing of Dresden during WWII.
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