Allan Massie
Birth date: October 19, 1938
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By far the least interesting in the series. There is no personal involvement, like when we learn to love Brutus in Cesar, or to imagine Cicerus as a clown in Marco Antonio.It felt like the author didn't even enjoyed writing it. He was just trying to get the story done.
Rating: 3* of five The Book Description: In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that there is a p...
There are times when a book truly sucks, and this was one of them. Massie uses mostly fictional sources, and over-glamourizes his subjects, focusing more on racy stories than anything factual. Pity, as this one could have been so much more. I can't honestly recommend this one, as I found myself gett...
A very well written novel that explores issues around loyalty and collaboration and the difficult choices people have to make. On one level I thought Massie was too soft on the Vichy regime, but maybe that's because he writes with the assumption that the reader already knows how cosy they were with ...
Emotionally drained after reading this, every character believable. I really look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.
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