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Ebook About A British spy goes behind enemy lines to crack a secret code in this “highly entertaining World War II espionage thriller” (Seattle Times).Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn’t officially exist, one that genius professor Alan Turing believes may hold the key to a code that could prevent the death of millions and possibly even end the war.St. Florian isn’t the classic British special agent with a stiff upper lip—he is a swashbuckling, whisky-drinking cynic and thrill-seeker who resents having to leave Vivien Leigh’s bed to set out on his crucial mission. Despite these proclivities, though, Basil’s Army superiors know he’s the best man for the job, carrying out his espionage with enough charm and quick wit to make any of his subjects lower their guards.Action-packed and bursting with WWII-era intrigue (much of which has basis in fact), Basil’s War is a classic espionage thriller from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, essayist, and bestselling novelist Stephen Hunter.Book Basil's War: A WWII Spy Thriller Review :
This short novel takes some of the irritating style elements that have crept more frequently into Stephen Hunter's writing over the last years and maximizes them to make them the main features of the story: unrealistic, over-the-top dialogue used by almost all characters; humorous word games without a solid background to set them up; a "breezy" style that really feels like froth without any substance; characters that seem like cartoons rather than anything close to real people. This is a 180-degree departure from the incredibly intense and nail-biting prose, plots, and vivid characters from his early books like "Point of Impact," "Black Light," "Time to Hunt," "Day Before Midnight," etc. I have greatly enjoyed most of Hunter's works, even the sometimes maligned "Night of Thunder" and "47th Samurai." I've re-read many of them numerous times. In contrast, Basil's War felt vapid and empty. The action was almost non-existent. The plot is vague and illogical, and the ending seems completely contrived. The character of Basil never drew me in or made me care about him. The whole thing left me wondering if the book was just an exercise for Hunter to enjoy creating clever, whimsical conversations; everything else just a relatively unimportant backdrop. I'm hoping Hunter still has some of his original excellence and intense, must-keep-reading kind of material left in him, but this disappointment doesn't give much hope. So what do we have here and why are some reviewers confused (?) and hence unhappy with it? Six years ago Stephen Hunter published a story in an Otto Penzler series. Penzler is the dean of mystery/suspense/noir writing in America and he urged SH to turn the story, “Citadel,” into a novel. It is a brief novel, about as long as a Parker novel, perhaps 60,000 words or so. It is set in WWII London and France and concerns a spy mission conducted by one Basil St. Florian. Basil is a (literal) lover of Vivien Leigh; on this case he finds himself working with Alan Turing and he even has a brief encounter with Winston himself, clad in one of his signature onesies.This is just a bit over the top, of course, but SH knows what he’s doing. He knows that the stiff upper lip is a defense mechanism (courage in the classic definition is fear directed at the enemy) and the term here for the British posture is ‘insousiance’. Insousiance is an affected lack of concern or indifference, illustrated via Google and Oxford Languages by “an impression of boyish insouciance.” Boyish is the operative word and it is characterized by Eton/Magdalen (in this case) irony, a way of thinking and speaking that suggests that the speaker is up to any imaginable task if only he could bring himself to care about doing it. It is the parole of brave but wary men in MI6 bunkers facing the full force of the Wehrmacht. Literarily (as SH knows) it is a very short step from this form of speech to a Monty Python Nazi routine. Herr Himmler and Colonel Klink are closer than first cousins. In Pythonesque terms it is the distance between “Biggles Flies Again” and “Biggles Fly’s Undone.” The very title is ironic. It may be “Basil’s War” but it is very different in tone and genre from Christopher Foyle’s.To walk this tightrope is very difficult, but it is also great fun. The result is the transmutation of the prospect of SS torture chambers and concentration camps into light comedy and the comedic form is very reassuring; we know that Captain St. Florian will survive and in fine spiritual, if not physical, fettle. Translation: this is not a spy thriller; it is a romp, a confection, a delight.The basic story is that there is a mole in Cambridge (the seat of British turncoats) who is receiving and dispatching intelligence via a code in a rare manuscript. Basil is dispatched to France to discover how this is all transpiring on the other end (Nazi? Or is it Russian?). In the process he discovers a second foreign agent operating on British soil. The story is all spy vs. spy with some clever clogs in the Paris Abwehr station.To make all of this work SH summons his legendary powers—a knowledge of ordnance, aircraft and material culture and an ability to plot like a bandit. My recommendation: return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Pour an adult libation and settle in for about 4-5 hours of uninterrupted pleasure. This is a WWII spy comic book, all dressed up in literary garb and designed to surprise and delight. 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