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Title: After Midnight

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Robert Ryan

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1964, a young Australian girl, Linda Carr, is trying to track down the wreckage of the Liberator bomber in which her father died when it crashed in North Italy in 1944 during World War Two. She employs the help of Jack Kirby, a British Mosquito fighter pilot who was on operations in the area when her father died. He is now a motorcycle racer competing in the Isle of Man TT, but he is finding it hard to adjust to life during peacetime. He too was shot down during the war and spent some time helping the Italian partisans on the ground so he knows a great deal about Nazi brutality, betrayal, corruption and the settling of scores that was the partisan's life in Italy at the time. He also fell in love with Francesca, one of the partisan leaders, and he is keen to find out what happened to her and renew their affair. However, what they uncover is more dangerous and complex than either Linda or Jack could ever have imagined.

Members Reviews:

Love these Robert Ryan wartime stories

Love these Robert Ryan wartime stories. If you like aircraft, autos, motorcycles and history, this is the author for you. Besides his intricate plots and exciting action, you really learn a lot from reading these books. In After Midnight we learn about the Italian resistance, mixed in with some history of Mussolini, Switzerland, Mosquito and Beechcraft airplanes, and all sorts of stuff. I can't really find other books that interest me as much as Ryan's novels. There are some unbelievable plot twists, such as the protagonist being cornered and just-in-time finding a 20 year old still-functional bazooka to blow away his adversaries. If only I had luck like that!

Still a great read. I really enjoyed this book.

An great idea but just never quite gelled for me

This book started off so well. It begins with a letter from a father to his daughter during the war, and then there is an amazing scene talking about a body which has been hidden in an isolated part of the Alps. Concealed for years and for some unexplained reason - the unfortunately the whole thing really fell apart for me.

The daughter is now grown up and wants to find out what happened to her father, he was a fighter pilot and disappeared during a mission over Italy. She wants to know what he did and where he is now although she has no illusions about whether he is still alive.

The story does follow twists and turns but I found the romance elements in it confusingly unnecessary, it was like they were there by rote and in the end I have to say that I just didn't really care that greatly what happened. Maybe the genre of a World War 2 novel cutting back and forth to the 1960s just wasnt interesting enough.

There is a nice acknowledgement in the back in which Ryan talks about his inspiration for this book and so on which actually made a better story to me than the book itself.

I don't think this book is generally reflective of Ryan's calibre as an author.

Quite fascinating

During WWII, Mussolini sided with Hitler, thinking it would keep his country safe, but there were Italians who did not agree with him, and these partisans did what they could to fight the Germans and the Italian national guards, to keep Italy free from Hitler's grasp.