: The Hunt
Author: William Diehl
This is a WWII spy novel. Not a bad book, though you don’t really know what’s going on until about the halfway point. Good for a quick read. My recommendation is to skim until page 200 or so. It’s all pages and pages of setup and the payoff isn’t that great. Predictable toward the end, and the plot relies on some unbelievable coincidences. Some interesting characters, however, and the heartbreak of the dispassionate hero, as he learns his love is in a German concentration camp is truly moving. From that great emotion, however, the novel descends into a generic action thriller. I vote for more Dostoyevsky and less Clint Eastwood. Not quite up to Diehl’s Primal Fear, though meticulously researched.
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