Black Cross

5 Responses to “Black Cross”

1. Anonymous says:

   April 22, 2010 at 11:57 pm

   This is the book I’ve feared for a long time: The bestseller that would turn the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps into entertainment. I’ll not try to detail the contents. If you want to know about the inhuman violence and horrendous “experiments” performed in persons camps, read the survivors accounts as a replacement for. Judge me: The truth was much worse than anything mr. Iles is capable of imagining. But the reading will give you only shock and vomiting – none of the titilliation mr. Iles aims for. Finally – mr. Iles dedicating this novel to the SOE operatives that performed the Rjukan raid (also known as the Heavy Water raid) is the essential insult. Read the particulars of that past mission, and you will find that persons commandos took immense risks to spare the lives of civillians (even Nazis) where at all possible. You will find that the aim of using a commando attack rather than massive bombing was to spare the lives of innocent bystanders. While mr. Iles murderous crew murders hundreds of innocents just to “send a message to Hitler”. Some things should never be warped into entertainment. The truth of the Nazi deathcamps is certainly one of them.
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
2. Anonymous says:

   April 23, 2010 at 2:32 am

   that there was no acknowledgment of William Styron and “Sophie’s Choice” as so many plot lines were “borrowed” from that fantastic book.

   The leader notes at the end that WW II only took place fifty years ago. Well “Sophie’s Choice” was written about twenty years ago and I remember it very well.

   At least the leader improved with “The Silent Game.”
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
3. Mike Wilson says:

   April 23, 2010 at 3:18 am

   ….

   I read ‘The Silent Game’ and loved it, so I read ‘The Black Cross’. Again, it was a fantastic tale that had larger than life characters, action, suspense, reality and everything that makes for a wonderful tale…
   Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
4. Anonymous says:

   April 23, 2010 at 4:51 am

   This book nearly wove a bit of political intrigue into an action tale. The tale was based on a mission which was to be concluded by two unlikely people. Everything works out OK in the end though.
   Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
5. Mr. Lu. says:

   April 23, 2010 at 5:05 am

   “Black Cross” takes us to the darkest hours of the Nazi regime. It is an action/adventure novel, but very detailed and realistic. The tale builds up and the last 100 pages are a rollercoaster.

   I don’t want to give details of the plot, just to say that if you like action, adventure and II World War era tales, “Black Cross” stands out as one of the best.
   
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5