| Title | : | Operation Oskar (Reim #2) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 234 |
| Publication | : | Published April 1, 2019 |
Determined to find out more, Reim is soon caught up in a case that takes him over the Berlin Wall to the capitalist West. But when the KGB and the British occupation forces in Berlin take an interest, Reim begins to question whether Operation Oskar is worth risking his life for.
Reim #2, the sequel to Stasi Vice - perfect for fans of David Young, Philip Kerr and Alex Gerlis
Operation Oskar (Reim #2) Reviews
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An entertaining Cold War espionage thriller which moves seamlessly between the two halves of Berlin in pursuit of the resolution to Operation Oskar. Reim is growing as a character, a decidedly unpleasant character without a doubt, but that is the nature of the business no?
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Not so much a spy story as one about bureaucratic infighting and staying alive as Reim tres to dig himself out of trouble, twice. The problem is that it’s never clear - even at the end - what the stakes are in all the operational details - and whether such a terminal solution is actually needed for the KGB to have a free hand. Fascinating but kind of boring?
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This is better than the first one, more coherent, more smoothly paced. It still feels weird to root for a member of the Stasi, but it’s an entertaining read. You can tell he’s done his research, and sometimes that does lead to too much detail, but in other places it works well.
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Again, in this second book of a series, Reim finds himself to be an abettor of a superior's nefarious inter-agency machinations. Reim whose last sub-rosa involvement cost him a brutal beating, prison time and assignment to landfill duty, has little leeway when he is squeezed between KGB Major Pozdniakov and Major Blecher of the GDR Stasi both running off-the-record operations for their personal benefit. Readers should not look to Reim as an estimable operative. He is again cheating, betraying, and conniving ruthlessly to succeed to satisfy his own self-interests. The quality of the writing plus the interesting attention to details by Author, Max Hertzberg, prompts me to think this one of the best series/dollar offered by Amazon.
