The similarities and differences between legality and morality have always been subjective, changing with times, places, and situations. What is legal may not be moral always, and vice versa and that forms the core of The Last Nazi. As a journalist turned writer, Andrew Turpin invites us to ponder on this while introducing us to […]
The beginning of The Honor of Spies overlaps with the ending of Death & Honor. Where the last book has Enrico describing the assault that takes place on the fly, the beginning chapter here gives a blow-by-blow account of it. The reader gets a front row seat as Enrico plans the ambush with military precision, […]
Death & Honor picks up from the closing events of Secret Honor. Following Korvettenkapitän Karl Boltitz’s discovery of Hans-Peter von Wachstein as the traitor in the embassy and the German Ambassador’s intercession, Peter takes Boltitz with him to meet Cletus Frade and to explain the situation to him. Arriving at Cletus’ estancia with Boltitz, Peter […]
Secret Honor doesn’t pick up immediately from the events at the end of Blood & Honor, as one would expect after the explosive (literally) ending of the second book. Instead, it starts with the seemingly unrelated incident of a lone German car being strafed by an American P-38 Lightning in the deserts of Tunisia; an […]
Blood & Honor takes place about two months after the events of Honor Bound. After successfully carrying out his mission of destroying a “neutral” vessel replenishing German submarines in Argentine territorial waters, Cletus Frade and Tony Pelosi have returned to USA; with accompanying medals and promotions for their valorous actions. The third member of the […]
Once in a while, you come across a story that is extremely simple on the surface, but as you read it and finish it, it keeps tugging at your memory with its subtle layers. Then you pick it up and read it again, and slowly the layers all become visible simultaneously and you see it […]
War Crows 