Auge um Auge

Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde #6

by Tornen von Strauss L.

/ / German literature / Duits / German / Allemand / Deutsch / hard cover / 19 x 12 cm / 87 .pp /

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Espionage

Hardcover

First published October 6, 1988

Reviews

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a typical Cold War intelligence agency story: An East German defector whose mother is an East German intelligence general and the British Intelligence Agency doing the work for the CIA.

The book is well written, and the characters are interesting. The plot twist and turns. The story has lots of violent action. My major problem was the print in the paperback was too small. This made it difficult for me to read. If you are looking for an old fashion Cold War thriller, try this book.

I read this as a paperback. It has 398 pages. It was published in 1988 by Jove Book.

[Jason Waltz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great premise not very well delivered, actually becoming more dreadful the more written, a protracted melodrama mostly unnecessary and generating zero empathy with a feeble has-been and a naive imbecile. Leaves a terrible aftertaste as I mourn the loss of a once-formidable spy.

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is out of print in the US, has a different title in the UK (All the Grey Cats) and probably didn't sell that well in part because it is a cold war tale, involving East Germany and the Russians that was published the year the Berlin Wall fell. I also think my enjoyment of this novel was handicapped by the fact that I haven't read any other Thomas novels and several of the characters have established back stories that I just wasn't familiar with. I found the Nepal plot, and the parts of the story that took place there, interesting but the botched defection and the vendetta that followed was not so convincing. Not a great stand alone novel, except for the actual Nepal action, I bet it would make a better piece of a larger set of stories.

[Ken · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though this was much better then Winterhawk I think I am done with the books of Craig Thomas.

[Cws]

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