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Title: Spoils of Victory
Subtitle: A Mason Collins Novel
Author: John A. Connell
Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-02-16
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring US Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany.
When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home of fleeing war criminals, making it the final depository for the Nazis' stolen riches. There are fortunes to be made on the black market. Murder, extortion, and corruption have become the norm.
It's a perfect storm for a criminal investigator like Mason Collins, especially when his friend, CIC Agent John Winstone, claims that a group of powerful men are taking over the lucrative trade. But before he can fully explain, Winstone - and his girlfriend - are brutally murdered.
Determined to uncover the truth, Mason plunges into a shadowy labyrinth of coconspirators, including former SS and Gestapo officers, US Army OSS officers, and liberated Polish POWs.
As both witnesses and evidence begin disappearing, it becomes obvious that someone on high is pulling strings to stifle the investigation - and that Mason must feel his way in the darkness if he is going to find out who in town has the most to gain - and the most to lose....
Members Reviews:
Second in the series...
"Spoils of Victory" is American author John Connell's second book in his "Mason Collins" series. Set - so far - in post-war Germany, Collins is a policeman who is hired by the US Army to investigate criminal activity in occupied Germany. The first book in the series - "Ruins of War" - was set in Munich. This one is set in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a resort community in the mountains south of Munich. (It was also the site of the 1936 Winter Olympics.)
Something very rotten is happening in Garmisch. Mason Collins has been sent there after getting into trouble while solving crimes in Munich. People in Garmisch - innocent or not-so-innocent - are turning up dead. Some are turning up quite unattractively dead, with missing body parts. As the body count rises, Collins and his aide, Abrams, set out to investigate the active black market in the town. Basically, everything 's for sale - food and other necessities of life now in short supply in post-war Germany - and the black market trading seems to involve almost everybody around. Germans, American GIs, former concentration camp inmates - everyone's on the take. Connell's world of Garmisch-Partenkirchen seems to be gray and murky. All his characters, except for Collins and Abrams, exist in a mist of murder and cheating. And because everyone's murky, there are very few characters who are not drawn as caricatures. Now, that's not a criticism; if the reader cared for all those getting butchered, "Spoils of Victory" would be as depressing as a Scandinavian crime novel.
"Spoils of War" is an entertaining novel about that "murkiness" of post-war morals. It may be about 50 pages too long, but it makes good reading. I'll look forward to Connell's next "Mason Collins" novel.
A Cinematic Page-Turner
With non-stop action which leaps off the page, and a complex, beleaguered, almost anti-hero main character, Spoils of Victory is a cinematic page-turner, in which Mason Collins brings to mind the iconic American GI-disobeying-orders-but-for-the-right-reasons from films such as Inglourious Basterds and even The Dirty Dozen.
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Title: Spoils of Victory
Subtitle: A Mason Collins Novel
Author: John A. Connell
Narrator: Rob Shapiro
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-02-16
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring US Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany.
When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home of fleeing war criminals, making it the final depository for the Nazis' stolen riches. There are fortunes to be made on the black market. Murder, extortion, and corruption have become the norm.
It's a perfect storm for a criminal investigator like Mason Collins, especially when his friend, CIC Agent John Winstone, claims that a group of powerful men are taking over the lucrative trade. But before he can fully explain, Winstone - and his girlfriend - are brutally murdered.
Determined to uncover the truth, Mason plunges into a shadowy labyrinth of coconspirators, including former SS and Gestapo officers, US Army OSS officers, and liberated Polish POWs.
As both witnesses and evidence begin disappearing, it becomes obvious that someone on high is pulling strings to stifle the investigation - and that Mason must feel his way in the darkness if he is going to find out who in town has the most to gain - and the most to lose....
Members Reviews:
Second in the series...
"Spoils of Victory" is American author John Connell's second book in his "Mason Collins" series. Set - so far - in post-war Germany, Collins is a policeman who is hired by the US Army to investigate criminal activity in occupied Germany. The first book in the series - "Ruins of War" - was set in Munich. This one is set in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a resort community in the mountains south of Munich. (It was also the site of the 1936 Winter Olympics.)
Something very rotten is happening in Garmisch. Mason Collins has been sent there after getting into trouble while solving crimes in Munich. People in Garmisch - innocent or not-so-innocent - are turning up dead. Some are turning up quite unattractively dead, with missing body parts. As the body count rises, Collins and his aide, Abrams, set out to investigate the active black market in the town. Basically, everything 's for sale - food and other necessities of life now in short supply in post-war Germany - and the black market trading seems to involve almost everybody around. Germans, American GIs, former concentration camp inmates - everyone's on the take. Connell's world of Garmisch-Partenkirchen seems to be gray and murky. All his characters, except for Collins and Abrams, exist in a mist of murder and cheating. And because everyone's murky, there are very few characters who are not drawn as caricatures. Now, that's not a criticism; if the reader cared for all those getting butchered, "Spoils of Victory" would be as depressing as a Scandinavian crime novel.
"Spoils of War" is an entertaining novel about that "murkiness" of post-war morals. It may be about 50 pages too long, but it makes good reading. I'll look forward to Connell's next "Mason Collins" novel.
A Cinematic Page-Turner
With non-stop action which leaps off the page, and a complex, beleaguered, almost anti-hero main character, Spoils of Victory is a cinematic page-turner, in which Mason Collins brings to mind the iconic American GI-disobeying-orders-but-for-the-right-reasons from films such as Inglourious Basterds and even The Dirty Dozen.