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...Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (1 last week) 2-The Odessa File, Forsyth (2) 3-August 1914, Solzhenitsyn (3) 4-Semi-Tough, Jenkins (4) 5-The Persian Boy, Renault (5) 6-The Camerons, Crichton (6) 7-Elephants Can Remember, Christie (9) 8-The Eiger Sanction, Travanian (7) 9-Dust on the Sea, Beach (8) 10-Green Darkness, Seton
...Odessa File, Forsyth...
...Forsyth offers a good deal of thinly disguised journalism (very good) about Odessa, the secret organization set up by the German SS during World War II. In 1945 with millions stolen from Jews and vanquished peoples, Odessa helped SS members to go underground or escape to foreign countries. Later it began to reinfiltrate them into German life, as it plotted a return to power and tried to vitiate SS guilt by encouraging the notion that the whole German people are to blame for the millions of SS murders...
...Forsyth has enormous trouble getting all this together and rumbling down the runway fast enough for takeoff. But finally, on page 189, the reporter's search turns into a good, old-fashioned chase, with the bad SS guys hop-skipping along after him trying to head...
...Forsyth's skillful set-piece description of how to make a bomb and attach it to a Jaguar XK 1505 (using five rubber erasers and a broken hacksaw blade) is a model of worldly efficiency. But he is also capable of howlingly unintentional humor. After pages and pages recalling the ferocity of the SS, a Jewish survivor warns the young reporter: "Do be careful. These men can be dangerous...