Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Impulse buy; picked up as Kindle deal of the day months ago and picked away at it a bit at a time before seriously powering through it recently. Very glad I did.
Very different than my usual read, but that’s the whole point, isn’t it? I can easily see why historical fiction is such a popular genre. This sort of “What if” thinking is natural to everyone, and so makes for an inexhaustible supply of scenarios.
This one is quite simple in the telling: the pursuit of a loose thread; a Nazi agent tasked with stealing the secrets of the Manhattan Project in the days after the surrender of Germany.
Great thriller; interesting story. Well written, but switches perspective/voice a little too frequently; gets a little distracting. Inclusion of female protagonist so prominently into the third act changes the tone of the piece. Turns the feel from tight spy story to Hollywood thriller. Not necessarily a bad thing, just unexpected and tonally at odds with the earlier chapters.
All in all, a very enjoyable read; looking forward to move of the author’s works.
