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ISBN:	1616952040 (ISBN13: 9781616952044)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ireland,1963
Literary Awards:	CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Nominee (2013)

Ratlines Hardcover | Pages: 354 pages

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Title	:	Ratlines
Author	:	Stuart Neville
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 354 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2013 by Soho Crime
Categories	:	Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Fiction. Crime. Thriller

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Ireland 1963. As the Irish people prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy to the land of his ancestors, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate. The German is the third foreigner to die within a few days, and Minister for Justice Charles Haughey wants the killing to end lest a shameful secret be exposed: the dead men were all Nazis granted asylum by the Irish government in the years following World War II.

A note from the killers is found on the dead German's corpse, addressed to Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite commando, once called the most dangerous man in Europe. The note simply says: "We are coming for you."

As Albert Ryan digs deeper into the case he discovers a network of former Nazis and collaborators, all presided over by Skorzeny from his country estate outside Dublin. When Ryan closes in on the killers, his loyalty is torn between country and conscience. Why must he protect the very people he fought against twenty years before? Ryan learns that Skorzeny might be a dangerous ally, but he is a deadly enemy.

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Before getting into my review, I have to give full disclosure -- I almost never read historical fiction. In fact, the only other historical fiction novels I can think of that I've read are Operation Napoleon (review) and The Guns of Navarone (review). Also of note is that I am a poor student of history, and did not know that Otto Skorzeny or ratlines were real, non-fictional aspects of this book, though the specifics of the plot were entirely fabricated. With that out of the way, I'll admit that

It's often the case that a well-crafted novel can teach the rider about a subject. In this case, I learned something I never knew: that Ireland had sheltered high level Nazis after WWII. Ireland was officially neutral in WWII. However, perhaps due to the animosity between Ireland and Britain, the Irish government chose to allow a large number of high level Nazis as well as sympathizers to settle in Ireland after WWII. I also learned that some Bretons of the French province of Breton (Brittany,)

Ratlines, by Stuart Neville, is a tricky book to like. Neville is hampered by actual history in his story of an Irish Intelligence agent trying to stop a group of soldierswith help from a Mossad agentfrom killing Nazi Otto Skorzeny. Its not exactly a book you can wholeheartedly embrace...Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.

This book intrigued me for ages before making it's way into my collection after hearing good things about it via Ben Kane way back in 2013, it then languished in my 'To Be Read' pile for quite a while until it finally reached the top.Definitely worth the wait!Very well written, Ratlines keeps a good balance between dialogue and physicality (some of which won't be for the more squeamish amongst you).I really enjoy when an authors writing style easily allows me to conjure images of what I'm

As with other Neville books, the pages kept turning. But for me, Ratlines isn't as good as Collusion (better) or Ghosts of Belfast (best). The book's hero seems to take an unnecessary amount of punishment. And by 'unnecessary' I mean not only the amount of gruesome imagery the author subjects the reader to, but also within the context of the plot itself -- the motivations of the bad guys don't seem to match up with their actions.As Albert Ryan takes his beatings, he swears comeuppance for his

A stand alone novel from the talented Stuart Neville, Ratlines explores a fascinating premise that includes historical fact with mostly fiction. Though I would not consider this a work of historical fiction, the basis for the story line is grounded in the post WWII movement of both Nazis and their ill gotten gains out of Germany into countries such as Ireland, Argentina, and other refuges. In Ratlines, we have a protagonist, Lt. Albert Ryan, assigned to investigate the murders of several German