I just finished one of the better books I have read in the last few months, The Quest for Anna Klein. It's a spy novel, not what I would call a thriller, but intriguing and gripping nevertheless. The narrative point of view is unusual and effective. All through the book the action alternates between what happened in the late thirties and forties on the one hand and one character's telling of the story to a young writer many years later. Anna Klein, a young woman involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler, comes to be loved by the man telling the story. But who or what really was she ? Was she an American spy, a German spy or a Russian spy ? Or was she all three, a triple agent. I very much enjoyed the narrative technique the author, Thomas H. Cook, used to tell the tale. The end is NOT predictable. And Cook, whom I had never heard of, has written many volumes of fiction and is highly regarded among crime novelists.
Try it. You'll like it. Another find that came to me through Daedalus Books (SaleBooks.com)
Try it. You'll like it. Another find that came to me through Daedalus Books (SaleBooks.com)
