Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom

The book starts with a doctor seeing a face in a coffee shop, and ends with a famous face. In between there are a whole bunch of murders and many close calls. The novel is long and engrossing. There are few major plot twists. Most of it is just a gradual unraveling of the story. You know the major characters will survive, while the minor ones seem to get killed off. The case gradually unravels. Some parts seem a little odd. Why would an operation that is so carefully carried out leave severed heads where they can be discovered? They seem to be so meticulous about destroying other evidence, why not the key ones?  (Or perhaps was this just a part of the doctor to help draw people to the trail.)  Having Nazis as bad guys seems to have gone out of vogue these days, but right after the end of the cold war, it seems a logical option. It does seem amazing that they could go through decades of killings and not get caught, but perhaps this is just like Russians "accidentally" jumping out of windows. If they really want to revive Hitler via attaching a new body, they will go through anything.

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