Mitch Silver has written a fast-moving, involving, witty thriller that combines history and fiction creatively and evokes both place and time in a way that captures the imagination. Silver draws on a few facts about Ian Fleming's World War II intell... (more)

Mitch Silver has written a fast-moving, involving, witty thriller that combines history and fiction creatively and evokes both place and time in a way that captures the imagination. Silver draws on a few facts about Ian Fleming's World War II intelligence service and builds an edifice from it that imagines treachery during the War and murder to protect the treachery in the present and recent past. As with most thrillers of worth, he makes parts of New York and New Haven into characters in the book with his clear and evocative descriptions of the places (whether they be real or imagined). Only quibble is that his British spy tradecraft is somewhat far from the mark. However, read it!

(Full disclosure: Mitch and I were classmates in college and friends since). (less)

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