Saturday, November 3, 2018

The Torch Betrayal


The Torch Betrayal by Glenn Dyer is a classic World War II spy novel. This is really a historical thriller that makes use of characters like Eisenhower and Churchill; as well as “Wild Bill” Donovan, the first director of the OSS (forerunner to the CIA), Kim Philby, the Soviet spy who was one of the Cambridge Five. Dyer’s protagonist is Connor Thorn, a 26-year-old OSS recruit. The book opens with the theft of a critical page of Eisenhower’s plans for the invasion of North Africa (The Torch) and the eventual Allied assault on the continent. The danger of the loss of that specific data was a change in Eisenhower’s best plans for dealing with Hitler. So the chase was on to find the diary page. Dyer had a little of everything including a love interest for Thorn. This is supposed to be the first book in a Connor Thorn series, and one can only hope that the subsequent Thorn books are as well written as this one. I’m not normally a reader of World War II fiction, but Connor Thorn is a compelling character and The Torch Betrayal is a good story that kept me engaged.

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