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second Mason Collins novel is better than the first, Good read for road trips, John A. Connell brings you back to postWorld War II Germany in this thrilling welldeveloped second installment to the Mason Collins series that will keep you guessing! Inspector Trouble
The second novel by Connell that continues the story of Mason Collins, US Army criminal investigator.
Collin's has left Munich and traveled south to Garmish, This small town has become the post WW II center of corruption and graft, He is hot on the trail of the high power organizers of a group that traffics Nazi Germany's stolen riches.
But, the trail goes farther than he imagines and beyond to higher tier officials, Who can he trust When the case becomes full blown there is still loose ends to tie up, The finale of this book will wake up your mind, Hold on tight when Mason Collins investigates, " there is no rest for the wicked" Märztot
In die Welt der Schmuggler und Schwarzhändler will USOfficer Mason Collins sich einschleusen lassen.
Das geht jedoch fürchterlich schief, denn als nach Monaten der Vorbereitung die Kontaktaufnahme naht, bricht eine Art Bandenkrieg los.
Bei etlichen der Opfer handelt es sich um diejenigen, von denen Mason Informationen einholen wollte, Seine Operation ist geplatzt und bevor sich Mason wirklich von der Enttäuschung erholt hat, kommt es zu noch grausameren Todesfällen.
Mit einem der Toten war Mason persönlich bekannt und dieser hatte ihn um Hilfe gebeten, da er sich in Gefahr sah.
Wie recht hatte er mit seiner Vermutung und wie wenig konnte Mason tun,
GarmischPartenkirchen im Jahr, eine Welt, die sich von den Strapazen des Krieges noch lange nicht erholt hat.
Viel Geld zu verdienen gibt es nicht, viel Arbeit auch nicht, viel liegt noch in Trümmern, Nur der Schwarzmarkt floriert. Und amerikanische Soldaten, wenn nicht gar Offiziere, scheinen daran beteiligt zu sein, Wie so oft heißt es, Geld stinkt eben nicht, Mason Collins stemmt sich gegen diese Entwicklung, Ein ehrenhafter Offizier sollte doch nicht so tief sinken, passiert dies doch, so gehört die Sache durchermittelt und die Täter bestraft, ungeachtet ihrer Position und Herkunft.
Mit seiner Meinung steht Collins allerdings relativ alleine da,
Der amerikanische Teil des besetzten Nachkriegsdeutschlands ist wahrlich ein spannender Schauplatz, Schmuggel, Schwarzmarkt, Liebe und Mord sind Zutaten, die vor dem Hintergrund des gerade erst zurecht verlorenen Krieges viel versprechen und neugierig machen.
Doch der zweite Band der Reihe um den Militärermittler Mason Collins hält nicht ganz, was er verspricht.
Eher hat man hier einen ganz normalen Thriller, der eben diese Kulisse hat, Das Verbrechen ist nicht aus der Geschichte heraus entwickelt, sondern es könnte auch in jeder anderen Zeit geschehen, in der Schmuggel und Schwarzmarkt blühen.
So versuchen hier wenige Aufrechte, die Verstrickungen in den eigenen Reihen mit dem Verbrechen zu stoppen und gleichzeitig die Morde aufzuklären.
Dabei gehen sie um der Aufklärung willen teilweise selbst recht rigoros vor,
Ein durchaus fesselnder Thriller, der wohlmöglich eine bessere Wirkung erzielt, wenn er unvoreingenommener angepackt wird,
,Sterne SPOILS of VICTORY
by John A Connell a peripatetic U, S. southerner, and author also of The ruins of war
BERKLEY BOOKS, New York US/Cpp
InWWtois ended and Germany occupied and governed by the American, French, Russian, and British military and police.
Bavarian South Germany is the American Zone with an American military government,
Mason Collins is an excop and a crime investigator of the U, S. Military police in Garmisch a pretty, unbombed, ski resort town at the Austrian border of Bavaria,
In this town refugees, amnesic Nazis, war shocked civilians, humiliated German military and police, opportunistic villains from everywhere, together with the occupying armies with their own problems and foibles, all form a social chaos where the tentacles of crime, sadism and murder slither freely.
Treachery and suspicion are rampant,
Mason Collins has to find a murderer,
Mason Collins friend Counter Intelligence Corps CIC agent John Winston has reason to suspect here in this town the existence of a vast criminal conspiracy led by men of power in the sundry commercial, police, military and criminal forces of Bavaria.
He tells Mason of this, then is slaughtered with his beautiful girl friend,
Mason goes on the hunt to dredge where he may for Winstons evidence and villains, He must find and neuter the bad guys without upsetting the cozy ones,
John A Connell has given him a complex route, and a pigheaded stubbornness to succeed,
The characters are straight forward, the descriptions reasonably restrained, and the incidents well defined, logically interdependent, and complex without confusion.
For action, tension, beautiful women, and all types of men this coherent story satisfies,
John Coffey May
"Spoils of Victory" is American author John Connell's second book in his "Mason Collins" series.
Set so far in postwar 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 GarmischPartenkirchen,
a resort community in the mountains south of Munich, It was also the site of theWinter 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 notsoinnocent 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 postwar 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 GarmischPartenkirchen 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 postwar morals, It may be aboutpages too long, but it makes good reading, I'll look forward to Connell's next "Mason Collins" novel,
There are fortunes to be made on the black market, Murder, extortion, and corruption have become the norm,
Lee Child called John's Mason Collins books a "must read series" and I totally agreeJohn's novels are completely gripping and suspenseful, and Spoils of Victory turns the heat well past the boiling point.
If you're looking for a brilliantlywritten thriller set in postWWII Germany, full of psychological twists and turns and one of the most winning protagonists and devious killers I've ever met, look no further.
You've found it. .
The second novel by Connell that continues the story of Mason Collins, US Army criminal investigator.
Collin's has left Munich and traveled south to Garmish, This small town has become the post WW II center of corruption and graft, He is hot on the trail of the high power organizers of a group that traffics Nazi Germany's stolen riches.
But, the trail goes farther than he imagines and beyond to higher tier officials, Who can he trust When the case becomes full blown there is still loose ends to tie up, The finale of this book will wake up your mind, Hold on tight when Mason Collins investigates, " there is no rest for the wicked" Märztot
In die Welt der Schmuggler und Schwarzhändler will USOfficer Mason Collins sich einschleusen lassen.
Das geht jedoch fürchterlich schief, denn als nach Monaten der Vorbereitung die Kontaktaufnahme naht, bricht eine Art Bandenkrieg los.
Bei etlichen der Opfer handelt es sich um diejenigen, von denen Mason Informationen einholen wollte, Seine Operation ist geplatzt und bevor sich Mason wirklich von der Enttäuschung erholt hat, kommt es zu noch grausameren Todesfällen.
Mit einem der Toten war Mason persönlich bekannt und dieser hatte ihn um Hilfe gebeten, da er sich in Gefahr sah.
Wie recht hatte er mit seiner Vermutung und wie wenig konnte Mason tun,
GarmischPartenkirchen im Jahr, eine Welt, die sich von den Strapazen des Krieges noch lange nicht erholt hat.
Viel Geld zu verdienen gibt es nicht, viel Arbeit auch nicht, viel liegt noch in Trümmern, Nur der Schwarzmarkt floriert. Und amerikanische Soldaten, wenn nicht gar Offiziere, scheinen daran beteiligt zu sein, Wie so oft heißt es, Geld stinkt eben nicht, Mason Collins stemmt sich gegen diese Entwicklung, Ein ehrenhafter Offizier sollte doch nicht so tief sinken, passiert dies doch, so gehört die Sache durchermittelt und die Täter bestraft, ungeachtet ihrer Position und Herkunft.
Mit seiner Meinung steht Collins allerdings relativ alleine da,
Der amerikanische Teil des besetzten Nachkriegsdeutschlands ist wahrlich ein spannender Schauplatz, Schmuggel, Schwarzmarkt, Liebe und Mord sind Zutaten, die vor dem Hintergrund des gerade erst zurecht verlorenen Krieges viel versprechen und neugierig machen.
Doch der zweite Band der Reihe um den Militärermittler Mason Collins hält nicht ganz, was er verspricht.
Eher hat man hier einen ganz normalen Thriller, der eben diese Kulisse hat, Das Verbrechen ist nicht aus der Geschichte heraus entwickelt, sondern es könnte auch in jeder anderen Zeit geschehen, in der Schmuggel und Schwarzmarkt blühen.
So versuchen hier wenige Aufrechte, die Verstrickungen in den eigenen Reihen mit dem Verbrechen zu stoppen und gleichzeitig die Morde aufzuklären.
Dabei gehen sie um der Aufklärung willen teilweise selbst recht rigoros vor,
Ein durchaus fesselnder Thriller, der wohlmöglich eine bessere Wirkung erzielt, wenn er unvoreingenommener angepackt wird,
,Sterne SPOILS of VICTORY
by John A Connell a peripatetic U, S. southerner, and author also of The ruins of war
BERKLEY BOOKS, New York US/Cpp
InWWtois ended and Germany occupied and governed by the American, French, Russian, and British military and police.
Bavarian South Germany is the American Zone with an American military government,
Mason Collins is an excop and a crime investigator of the U, S. Military police in Garmisch a pretty, unbombed, ski resort town at the Austrian border of Bavaria,
In this town refugees, amnesic Nazis, war shocked civilians, humiliated German military and police, opportunistic villains from everywhere, together with the occupying armies with their own problems and foibles, all form a social chaos where the tentacles of crime, sadism and murder slither freely.
Treachery and suspicion are rampant,
Mason Collins has to find a murderer,
Mason Collins friend Counter Intelligence Corps CIC agent John Winston has reason to suspect here in this town the existence of a vast criminal conspiracy led by men of power in the sundry commercial, police, military and criminal forces of Bavaria.
He tells Mason of this, then is slaughtered with his beautiful girl friend,
Mason goes on the hunt to dredge where he may for Winstons evidence and villains, He must find and neuter the bad guys without upsetting the cozy ones,
John A Connell has given him a complex route, and a pigheaded stubbornness to succeed,
The characters are straight forward, the descriptions reasonably restrained, and the incidents well defined, logically interdependent, and complex without confusion.
For action, tension, beautiful women, and all types of men this coherent story satisfies,
John Coffey May
"Spoils of Victory" is American author John Connell's second book in his "Mason Collins" series.
Set so far in postwar 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 GarmischPartenkirchen,
a resort community in the mountains south of Munich, It was also the site of theWinter 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 notsoinnocent 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 postwar 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 GarmischPartenkirchen 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 postwar morals, It may be aboutpages too long, but it makes good reading, I'll look forward to Connell's next "Mason Collins" novel,
From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U, S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of postWorld War II Germany,When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town GarmischPartenkirchen 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,
Its 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, Winstoneand his girlfriend are brutally murdered,
Determined to uncover the truth, Mason plunges into a shadowy labyrinth of coconspirators including former SS and Gestapo officers, U.
S. 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 investigationand that Mason must feel his way in the darkness if he is going to find out who in town has the most to gainand the most to lose
Highly recommend! This is a great historical fiction thriller that keeps you turning the pages as quick as you can! Well written and researched.Lee Child called John's Mason Collins books a "must read series" and I totally agreeJohn's novels are completely gripping and suspenseful, and Spoils of Victory turns the heat well past the boiling point.
If you're looking for a brilliantlywritten thriller set in postWWII Germany, full of psychological twists and turns and one of the most winning protagonists and devious killers I've ever met, look no further.
You've found it. .