I’m not even
sure how this book got on my Kindle. Someone else on my account must have
ordered it, but given that I’ve been looking for books about The Czech Republic
and Hungary, I decided to give The Prague
Ultimatum a try. This is the first novel for James Silvester that has been
reviewed in the blog, and he’s better known for Escape to Perdition.
The premise of
this 2017 book is that the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been reunited under
the charismatic leadership of Prime Minister Miraslava Svobodova. However,
there’s a secret organization, best known as “The Institute” which is keen to
see the reunified country be separated once again. Czechoslovakia is really a
bit player in the power/greed conspiracy, but they been chosen as the
sacrificial lamb to achieve the control of Europe by the Institute.
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What is
interesting about this book is the way terrorism and ultra right racism is used
to foment rebellion. There are actually some great speeches given by the
primary characters on those topics. But, that’s as far as my favorable comments
can go. I liked the protagonist, Captain Thomas Stone of the 4th
Royal Tank Regiment, but I also found his wild mood and temper swings to be
unbelievable. The other characters were inadequately developed. Finally, while
I’m used to having to suspend my own sense of reality when reading crime and
espionage novels, there’s a limit to how far that suspension can go. And I
thought this one was just too much. I can’t give The Prague Ultimatum a
favorable recommendation.
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