Bill's review of The Eye of the Needle
The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
I was in a rare mood for espionage and after much searching on the Net it seemed that Eye of the Needle was my best bet. Good choice.
In the preface, Follett gives us some historical background on the Allied effort to build an elaborate deception to throw off the Germans prior to the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The rest is fiction, but something like this must have happened. The rest involves the discovery
of the deception by a German assassin and the race to catch The Needle before he can get to Hitler with the intelligence.
It's every bit as good as it sounds. And a relatively short novel...or did it just seem that way?
In the preface, Follett gives us some historical background on the Allied effort to build an elaborate deception to throw off the Germans prior to the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The rest is fiction, but something like this must have happened. The rest involves the discovery
of the deception by a German assassin and the race to catch The Needle before he can get to Hitler with the intelligence.
It's every bit as good as it sounds. And a relatively short novel...or did it just seem that way?
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