Jack Hayes

The main reason for choosing this book was the premise of a behind enemy lines project requiring courage and audacity. This the book certainly had in abundance, along with hints of the film "The Heroes of Telemark" starring Kirk Douglas many years ago. Maddox and his chosen team, very experienced in hot weather climates, are instructed to drop into Finland (not particularly warm) along with another team seconded to him by rheir co-ordinator, a team that Maddox does not fully trust. They are show more seeking to prevent the acquisition of very rare blue diamonds that can be used to improve the accuracy of V2 rockets. The Germans are mining in an area being gradually take over by the Russians, with Finnish Freedom Fighters thrown in for good measure. At times some do not know quite who their enemies might be, and with a traitor thrown in to complicate the issue, it pounds along with great pace, much violence, death and destruction. However, some of the action scenes take a great deal of following, and there are quite a few that stretch one's incredulity quite significantly. I did find it a little difficult to visualise what was going on at times and as this is of much importance to me when reading, I have had to mark the book down, whilst also making the decision that there may be more adventures to follow, I am not likely to be following up on them. show less

Silly and shallow but lots of fun, a brisk WW2 thriller with lots of two fisted action and derring-do

A book filled with huge amounts of action which moved along at a really fast place. A very enjoyable read but very complicated and I lost track a number of times. The action was described in detail but I really could not follow a lot of the moves. Unfortunately there were also quite a number of spelling and grammatical errors that have yet to be cleaned from this version.