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The Thyssen Affair Reviewed By Mary Lignor of Bookpleasures.com
- By Mary Lignor
- Published July 26, 2010
- Crime & Mystery
Mary Lignor
Reviewer Mary Lignor: Mary is a retired librarian, originally from Connecticut but now living in New Mexico. All her life Mary has loved books and has passed this love on to her daughters. Mary started working in a library when her children were young as an Assistant Librarian and ended up as its Director. Her favorite books are suspense, political intrigue and anything involving the World War II era.
Author: Mozelle Richardson
ISBN:
978-1-61658-244-9
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What a wonderful story!!! This
book is such a welcome change after many months of vampires, ghosts
and what have you.
Canyon Eliot is a rancher in Colorado,
who was once an OSS agent in World War II. He is called upon by
the CIA to investigate a situation that brings him back to Munich,
Germany, where he spent a lot of time in the war, by a
friend, who is like a son to him, so he can't very well refuse.
He expects that this investigation will last about a week at the
outside and he'll be back among his cattle and horses in a short
time. But, as usual, this does not work out and he finds himself
mixed up with a beautiful Russian spy and an agent from the Israeli
Mossad. He has to use every bit of the skill he learned during
the war to keep his feet on the ground and his mind on his
mission.
This "situation" started when the
author, Mozelle Richardson, saw a newspaper clipping concerning the
theft of a skull from the body of a German prisoner of war at a POW
cemetery in Fort Reno, Oklahoma. Using her fantastic
imagination, Ms. Richardson wrote this story. Cane Eliot is
visited by a CIA friend Peter Landis and handed this newspaper
article about the skull. Apparently, the thieves were Russians,
which asks the question "Why would anyone want to dig up a
35-year-old Nazi skull? And, why should it interest the CIA?"
No one does seem to know, but if the Russians are interested, then the
CIA is too, and using their clever (read underhanded) tactics managed
to substitute the Nazi skull for another and are now trying to figure
out why they wanted it in the first place. Are you following
all this?
Peter and his bosses want Cane, who speaks excellent
German, to go to Germany and find the wife of the late prisoner
and find out why anyone would want to dig him up. Cane agrees
to go but, on the way he picks up some unwelcome stalkers, a Russian
agent, who also wants the skull and an agent from the Mossad.
The Mossad has figured out that there is a piece of microfilm hidden
in the skull that tells the location of some Nazi treasure that was
stolen from the Jewish people. This story takes you from
the Western US to Germany, Bavaria, the Alps and goodness knows
where else. It twists and turns from one person to another
until you could get very mixed up figuring out the good from the bad
guys. But, I for one loved it. We need more stories like
this that hold your interest until the last page. I am a big
fan of any story that involves the big, bad Nazis. They were
not very nice people but, you have to admit that they were
interesting and you really loved to hate them. They could keep
you on the edge of your chair.
Go right out and get this
book and you won't be sorry. There is a photo of the
author on the back cover and her bio says that she is 96
years young and received her BA in Journalism from the
University of Oklahoma at the age of 90. What a woman!!! I
wish Ms. Richardson much luck with this book it is a prize and,
obviously so is she.