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The League Of Night And Fog (2003)

The League of Night and Fog (2003)

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0446691925 (ISBN13: 9780446691925)
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grand central publishing

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This is, in fact, book three in a series, but you can read it as a stand-alone book as well. You might not feel as much for the characters if you have not read the other two though. I've read this book before, way back, and then I had read both the other books before, this time I had only seen the series of the first book not THAT long back (only last year), which is "The brotherhood of the rose". I wanted to read the other one (Fraternity of the Stone) but I did not find it when I was browsing mother's bookshelf. (This book is hers too)Anyway, the book begins by a lot of people spread out over the world realizing that their fathers are gone. They seem to be taken, and it reminds people a lot of a terror technique used by the nazis during WW2, where people who displeased the leaders disappeared into "night and fog", their families not knowing what became of them, hence spreading the fear of what might happen to you or your family if you do something that does not please the authorities. Everything seems to link back to things that happened during WW2, but there is lot of action before we get all the facts and realize how it is all tied together. Before that we get quite a lot of action, with ex-agents, militant priests, contract killers and intelligence agencies all mixed up together in the hunt for the truth about what happened, and what it is all about. I read the Swedish translation "Natten och dimmans förbund"

Usually I enjoy books in this genre, but The League of Night and Fog just didn't come through for me. The premise is a clear one, built around a loosely organized team searching desperately for the perpetrators of a series of kidnappings. All of the victims share a secret that dates back to WWII, being members of a crack unit dedicated to rescuing Jews from the Nazi death squad, The League of Night and Fog. Half a century later, it's up to the children of these men to rescue them, if they're still alive.Strong beginning, but the book quickly slides into a repetitive cycle of mortal danger and narrow escapes. Apparently, the protagonist characters were previously developed in earlier novels, but in League, they come across as cardboard cutouts. At times, the action is interspersed with coy love scenes, and the dialogue tends toward the simplistic. The gruesome photographic evidence, with which to identify and implicate the war criminals, is described so frequently that it begins to lose its impact. Not surprisingly, the resolution is a satisfactory one, but much slogging through is required in order to arrive there.

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Fast-paced thriller. Many storylines which all merge into one by the end. It's been a long time since I had read anything by this author and this novel brings back characters from both The Fraternity of the Stone and The Brotherhood of the Rose.Men in their 70's were disappearing, some were holocaust survivors and former Mossad; others were former SS officers that had gone into hiding around the world. Many of the adult children of the disappeared men are scared & confused over the disappearances and fear they are targets too, a few with special skills are in the hunt to find their fathers. A large arms deal is going down. The mix brings together former CIA and Mossad operatives, freelance assassins, and a religious order who uses money & violence to keep secrets.A thrill ride that takes one from the deserts of Egypt and Israel to Australia, Canada,the Alps and Rome.
—Chris

I have a weakness for remembering names, so my habit of taking notes when I read proved essential for me to follow this story. There is no protagonist. There are three teams of two people each working independently to solve the mystery of the disappearance of many men in their 70’s. All of the missing men have connections to WWII and the holocaust. The story and the characters move all over the globe as the mystery unfolds. Using my notes, I was able to follow the story and keep track of the characters. Good and evil can be found in the teams, so that it is well into the story before the reader begins to realize who the good guys are and who the bad ones are. The story was well written and interesting.
—Glen Stott

The final book of David Morrell's excellent trilogy is a notch below the previous two books (The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity of the Stone). It's still quite entertaining, with relentless pace and a great attention to detail. The main problem is that it is a virtually identical word count to the previous books, and yet has three to four times the characters and many more plot threads. It feels like a highlight reel of a book at times rushing from one scene to the next. My edition goes to 400 pages (of moderately large print), and I think Morrell should have added another 150 or 200 pages. The ending feels a bit contrived. That seems like a lot of negatives for a book I'm rating four stars, but it's because Morrell in every other way still wrote a very good thriller. The other two books of the trilogy could stand on their own, with no recurring characters and only a general theme that unites them. It is this final book that the protagonists of the first two books finally meet, and the stories collide. The other two books could be read in any order or as stand alone novels. This is a book you should not read until you have read both the preceding novels.
—David

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