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Title: Wolf Pass: A Novel by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0-399-14991-0 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Spoiled by conspiracy
Comment: Again in this episode, someone tries to kill JFK. For the first 90 pages I was hooked by good writing, interesting characters and facts. Then, one line gives away a big secret and what was entertaining goes down hill fast. Lose the JFK fixation and stick with a flawed, deeply troubled main character.
Rating: 5
Summary: Old Reliable
Comment: I always look forward to a new book by Steve Thayer and I'm never disappointed. He characteristically mixes time levels in interesting and creative ways and manages to write period pieces from a contemporary perspective without sacrificing period detail. In WOLF PASS he's back in Kickapoo Falls, WI with trips to such local mainstays as Devil's Lake and the Wisconsin Dells. I spent 12 years of my life in those environs and Thayer has nailed them. As usual, there's the perfect mix of plot, setting, and character with appropriate dollops of sex and, in this case, nazis. Who could ask for more?
Steve Thayer is also highly skilled at depicting real people and real events in ways that demonstrate the fiction writer's art. In this book, for example, there is a plot line involving an assassination attempt that targets President Kennedy. Hey, you know it's not going to happen, because JFK didn't die in St. Paul, but you're still worried. You're in the hands of a pro and he's making you squirm.
Very nice work.
Rating: 4
Summary: exciting historical police procedural
Comment: In 1963, residents of Kickapoo County, Wisconsin are shocked when someone assassinates train engineer Frank Prager while waiting in the yards. The bullet was fired from a hillside six hundred yards away from the target. Townsfolk know that only Deputy Sheriff Pliny Pennington could hit a mark from a distance equivalent to six football fields.
Pliny has two reasons to solve the case. First he must clear his name since he is running for the position of county sheriff and no spin control short of catching the real killer will work. Second, he suspects that the murder is the calling card from a World War II enemy, Nazi officer "Wolf" Stangl. When Frank's wife Lisa, who was having an "affair" with Pliny, is killed next, the deputy has no doubts as to the culprit. However, no one else believes a former Nazi butcher is hiding in Wisconsin seeking a personal final solution that is until a revenge seeking Scotland Yard operative arrives in town.
WOLF PASS is an exciting historical police procedural that features the return of Pliny in a strong tale. Besides an engaging investigative tale, the story line provides the audience with a deep look at what the Great War cost Pliny physically and mentally. There are plenty of twists, not all needed to prime the pump, but ultimately the plot peels down to Pliny must prove his theory correct or lose more than just an election. Sub-genre readers will applaud this novel and seek Steve Thayer's previous Pliny work (see WHEAT FIELD).
Harriet Klausner
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Title: The Wheat Field by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0451410750 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Lost Light by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316154601 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Shutter Island: A Novel by Dennis Lehane ISBN: 0688163173 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child ISBN: 0385336667 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Naked Prey by John Sandford ISBN: 0399150439 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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