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    Spandau Phoenix
    Spandau Phoenix
    Spandau Phoenix
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    Spandau Phoenix

    Written by Greg Iles

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Spandau Diary—what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped to get it? Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors of the Nazi past to warriors in this new conflict about to explode? Why did the world's entire history of World War II have to be rewritten as the future hung over a nightmare abyss?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 25, 2006
    ISBN9781423302155
    Spandau Phoenix
    Author

    Greg Iles

    Greg Iles spent most of his youth in Natchez, Mississippi. His first novel, Spandau Phoenix, was the first of thirteen New York Times bestsellers and his new trilogy continues the story of Penn Cage, protagonist of The Quiet Game, Turning Angel, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Devil's Punchbowl. Iles' novels have been made into films and published in more than thirty-five countries.

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    • 5/5
      This is a long book with many details and characters, and it's phenomenally good. I haven't read anything by this author so far that was anything but 5 star, but I still have many of his books to read. Spandau Phoenix is totally different subject matter than Mortal Fear, and yet the author makes every nuance so real.

      This story takes place around the time Rudolph Hess disappeared while on a secret mission, and also in the 1980s. It involves several countries and their top brass, and yet it's an engaging personal story, as well. It's one possible explanation of what happened to Hess and his double, a great thriller.

      If you like thrillers, read anything by this author. Then maybe read it again. This author's mind is way ahead of most of us.
    • 3/5
      A very good "what if" tale. What if Rudolf Hess was never held in Spandau prison, but had a double who took his place? This story pits the English, Germans, & Russians against one another while simple folks suffer for the nations' need to protect their images. Not my favorite Greg Iles novel, but that is okay.
    • 3/5
      Using the enigmatic mystery of Hitler's second in command's reasons for flying solo to the UK in the early days of WWII, this novel expands on the mystery by asking who it really was who took the solitary dare towards Britain. Rudolf Hess, Hitler's right hand man for most of his pre-war political career did indeed land in England on May 10th, 1941. Or did he? When the Rudolf Hess who had been incarcerated in Spandau Prison since the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials suddenly comes to die under suspect circumstances, a set of events reaching back to Hess's escape from Nazi Germany escalate rapidly taking over most of the novel in a James Bond fashion. Was the man imprisoned in Spandau really Rudolf Hess or as long suspected a carefully planted double?And that's where this book falls apart. The author takes great pain to paint a picture of the chaotic days of internal politics of Germany between 1941 and the end of the war. But at the same time the incredibly out of proportion events, that take the main characters from West to East Berlin and back again all the way to South Africa, reduce the carefully crafted intrigue to a pile of Reichstag rubble. What could have been a subtle and suspenseful political thriller, turns quickly into a dime novel that would make even the most die hard Bond fan shudder.
    • 5/5
      A long buried Nazi secret erupts into a nerve shattering nightmare, as fact meets fiction. in this explosive international thriller. In 1941, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's fanatical Deputy Fuhrer, shocked the world by flying on a seemingly mad peace mission to Britain. He was captured there, and after the war, spent the rest of his life behind the forbidding walls of Berlin's Spandau prison. In 1987, with that sole remaining prisoner's death, S;andau is razed, and the strangest, most mysterious chapter of World War II i closed forever, or is it? The answer to this question is a decisive and deadly no for Berlin police sergeant Hans Apfel. In the rubble of Spandau, Hans discovers a sheaf of tattered papers in a holowed brick. It is the half-mad diary of Prisoner #7, known to the world as Rudolf Hess. And it holds the first shocking revelation of why Hess flew to Britain, and the terrifying dimensions of Hitler's boldest, most brilliant move at the height of his evil genius. Thus the most vicious and momentous competition in the annuals of international espionage is set in motion. In a Germany moving toward unity, in a Soviet Union falling apart, and an Israel facing destruction, the most skilled players of the post-glasnost era will stop at nothing to seize the Spandau papers. Brutal violence, global intrigue, treason, and terror turn innocent bystanders into desperate combatants, in a world where nations battle for supremacy and trust is another word for suicide. With unforgettable characters, including Sgt. Hans Apfel and his estranged father, forced to ally themselves against impossible odds; Hans' kidnapped wife, fighting to save her unborn child; and a driven Israeli agent whose country's survival depends on the contents of the Spandau diary. This riveting thriller moves relentlessly across time and around the globe. Its pulse-pounding action ranges from Germany to South Africa, from England to Israel, from a World War II conspiracy to its long-delayed but inescapable endgame, a Nazi dream that will not die. This is an epic novel that rips open the last great secret of World War II.