Eclipse

by William Stevenson

Scott Talbot, a television journalist, records the first-ever interview with Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess in Spandau prison and discovers that Hess was not alone when his plane crashed in Scotland in 1941

Genres: Fiction

370 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

William Stevenson was a British-born Canadian author and journalist. His 1976 book "A Man Called Intrepid" was about William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring David Niven and Stevenson followed it up with a 1983 book titled "Intrepid's Last Case."

Stevenson set a record with another 1976 book, "90 Minutes at Entebbe." The book was about Operation Entebbe, an operation where Israeli commandos secretly landed at night at Entebbe Airport in Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. The remarkable record in that pre-internet age is that Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

this was pretty good, but sometimes it was tedious.

[Stefan · Rating 1 out of 5]

A poorly written, confusing, un-entertaining thriller that had a horribly confused plot, poor, shoddy dialogue, and characters that felt fake. This book was dated, which may be part of the problem, but it also totally failed my expectations, because the book contained a few neat ideas which the author mangled horribly.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had trouble following certain parts of the story. It was a slow read in parts. Not as bad as some reviews made it out to be though.

[Henri Moreaux · Rating 2 out of 5]

A long winded and rather dull suspense novel about Nazi negotiations in 1941 and how they relate to a conspiracy in the present.