The Von Kessel Dossier

by Léon LeGrand

305 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Star]

This book is terrible. A waste of time. It's kind of deceptive. You think that you're getting some cold-war era spy thriller mystery where a Nazi plot is uncovered and confounded but you don't. You get a corporation(The villain) that originally scammed the Nazis(That's a good thing right), scamming other corporations out of their money(Serves them right), only all that is portrayed the opposite of what it actually is. There are Nazis in hiding who claim they hurt no one (yeah, being silently complicit totally is not a thing) that we're supposed to feel sympathy for. The main character's wife gets killed and he surprisingly finds a new woman who looks like the old and what do you know, she also is the key to finding a way into the corporation that is the villain. I DNF'd at that point around page 230. I only picked this book up at a Salvo for 50cents and wish I hadn't. I cannot get my time back and wished I'd read something else.