Reading Log: Black Cross (Greg Iles)

January 15, 2008

I picked Black Cross up in the airport bookstore thinking the the author, Greg Iles, was someone else. There’s nothing horribly wrong with this World War II thriller of covert action behind enemy lines– it just seems interchangeable with a hundred other action-packed tales of derring-do, replete with larger-than-life heroic characters performing amazing feats in service of humanity. The reticence of one of the main characters was a shrewd choice, but the irritating framing device and sappy ending of the same counteracts that positive aspect with great vigor.

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