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Friend of the Devil by Brendan McNally6/28/2023 It was all extremely interesting, but what put the hook in me was his description of being in Flensburg in the days immediately after the fighting had stopped. It left me a lot of time of read and during that time I read Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. He goes on to say:Īfter bombing out of Art School, I went to work on a tugboat hauling oil rigs around the Gulf of Mexico. At his author page on the S&S website, he says one of his best qualities is his "endless curiosity," and that shows in his writing. He's also worked as a merchant seaman, bookstore manager, and oyster shucker (trades I have yet to pick up). His background is in journalism-specifically, writing about the defense industry-so we have that in common as well. Sometimes you want to cheer for new writers, then cry disappointing tears when they don't take off like you'd hoped.įor that reason alone I feel some kinship with McNally. His debut seemed to have joined that long list of novels deserving better treatment by the reading public than ending up in the Barnes and Noble Bargain Books section. I greatly enjoyed McNally's novel and often wondered why he hadn't published anything since Germania-which, frankly, didn't do as well in sales as Simon & Schuster was probably hoping. To read the rest of the review, click here
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