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Grudge: Operation Highjump
In 1946 the United States Navy conducted Operation Highjump, an expedition to evaluate the effect of extreme Antarctic cold on US equipment. However, their true purpose remains shrouded in mystery. Were the reports of Nazi activity on the Southern Continent accurate? After engaging unknown forces in aerial combat, weather forced the Navy to abandon operations. Undeterred, the US returned every Antarctic summer until escalating tensions in Southeast Asia forced the government to secretly detonate three nuclear warheads over the continent in 1958. With the threat eliminated, the files were sealed and forgotten by all but the men who fought there. Now the enemy has returned with a genetically superior army, indoctrinated from birth to hate Americans for their savagery, and they’re intent on exacting revenge for the loss of their homeland and banishment to the icy wastes.
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379 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 16, 2017
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May 5, 2017
I'm a huge fan of Brian Parker's Easytown series which made me anxious to try out his next novel. I had no knowledge of what Grudge: Operation Highjump was going to be about but soon discovered it was a classic conspiracy theory brought to life. After the end of WW2, Nazis moved to Antarctica to create a massive underground civilization with the help of aliens. These Nazis proceeded to keep updating their technology with the aid of collaborators as well as their alien allies until they were ready to begin a vengeance war against the United States.
In terms of historical fiction, this is ridiculous even with the presence of aliens. However, this is a story where you're meant to stretch your suspension of disbelief and if you can't then, well, you can't. This isn't going to be a book for everyone as the Nazis slaughter millions before their entire self-destructive Blitzkrieg falls apart. This isn't even a spoiler as the brief bits with their alien masters show this is just a proxy war to soften up the planet. That's why the Nazis are attacking America rather than the Russians.
This is a pretty grim book starting with the slaughter of everyone in Fort Lauderdale during Spring Break and continuing onward into a very brief global war. Brian Parker doesn't make it a shining case of Good vs. Evil either, which I appreciated. Yes, the Nazis are horrible but the current crop of troops have been spoon fed a diet of propaganda and the few who are exposed to the truth of what they're planning to do as well as what was done by their ancestors are horrified.
The American government is also more than willing to sacrifice any number of the Nazis civilians because, well, Nazis. They're also not above taking advantage of the confusion of some of the aforementioned horrified soldiers to brainwash them into being soldiers against their own people. Good, evil, or just war? You judge. I admit, in my case? Well, they're Nazis so [expletive] em.
There's some surprisingly touching moments in-between the scenes of the Nazis slaughtering innocent civilians, only to get attacked in return with the full attention of their enemies. You wouldn't think a book with as Roger Corman-esque a premise as this (straight out of Iron Sky only played mostly straight) would have moments of actual depth but there's more than a few. People who lost loved ones during the war and those who are traumatized by the events involved.
So, do I recommend the Grudge? Yes, with the caveat this is a gory B-horror movie sort of book which still takes its subject matter seriously. The Nazis aren't played as cartoons anymore than Wolfenstein: The New Order. Instead, the book treats them as horrifying perpetrators of evil which just so happen to have more backup than Hydra by the Skrulls. The book has an open ending which could lead to a sequel but I actually think it works fine as a stand-alone too.
8/10
In terms of historical fiction, this is ridiculous even with the presence of aliens. However, this is a story where you're meant to stretch your suspension of disbelief and if you can't then, well, you can't. This isn't going to be a book for everyone as the Nazis slaughter millions before their entire self-destructive Blitzkrieg falls apart. This isn't even a spoiler as the brief bits with their alien masters show this is just a proxy war to soften up the planet. That's why the Nazis are attacking America rather than the Russians.
This is a pretty grim book starting with the slaughter of everyone in Fort Lauderdale during Spring Break and continuing onward into a very brief global war. Brian Parker doesn't make it a shining case of Good vs. Evil either, which I appreciated. Yes, the Nazis are horrible but the current crop of troops have been spoon fed a diet of propaganda and the few who are exposed to the truth of what they're planning to do as well as what was done by their ancestors are horrified.
The American government is also more than willing to sacrifice any number of the Nazis civilians because, well, Nazis. They're also not above taking advantage of the confusion of some of the aforementioned horrified soldiers to brainwash them into being soldiers against their own people. Good, evil, or just war? You judge. I admit, in my case? Well, they're Nazis so [expletive] em.
There's some surprisingly touching moments in-between the scenes of the Nazis slaughtering innocent civilians, only to get attacked in return with the full attention of their enemies. You wouldn't think a book with as Roger Corman-esque a premise as this (straight out of Iron Sky only played mostly straight) would have moments of actual depth but there's more than a few. People who lost loved ones during the war and those who are traumatized by the events involved.
So, do I recommend the Grudge? Yes, with the caveat this is a gory B-horror movie sort of book which still takes its subject matter seriously. The Nazis aren't played as cartoons anymore than Wolfenstein: The New Order. Instead, the book treats them as horrifying perpetrators of evil which just so happen to have more backup than Hydra by the Skrulls. The book has an open ending which could lead to a sequel but I actually think it works fine as a stand-alone too.
8/10
July 25, 2019
Grudge: Operation Highjump
Author: Brian Parker
Narrator: Roberto Scarlato
Listening Time: 9 hours 42 minutes
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.
I always like to preface any reviews I give with this information.
I am a 68 year old female who has been an avid reader since I was around 10 or 11 years old.
I read mainly for entertainment purposes although I do a lot of research in areas of personal interest.
I have a great interest in many things. Ancient History and Archeology are at the top of a very long list.
Review: This review is for the Audiobook version of: Grudge: Operation Highjump
The true event known as "Operation Highjump" is a fact of history. You can research those facts for yourself to draw your own conclusions. There is much information that is considered to be "fringe" information that is also available for your perusal. Once again, I would say to draw your own conclusions there as well.
This novel is based in part on the facts of Operation Highjump. There are parts of this novel that involve "conspiracy theory" ideas as well; also some history involving Nazis of WWII.
In addition to this; I found that Brian Parker's creative imagination and writing, has orchestrated these elements into a very suspenseful, fast-moving novel that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the story. I listened to this audiobook in one setting.
At the start of this novel we are introduced to dual timelines. One timeline is in the 1940s, involving the end of the second World War in Europe.
The other timeline involves the very near future, (the year 2020 forward through 2025).
Rather than giving a synopsis of the storyline and then my review, I am going to do this review differently.
This is a book that I hesitate to actually get into the plot and subplots because I believe it is important that you draw your own conclusions.
My personal beliefs about "hidden history", "the military industrial complex", "conspiracy theory" "ufos" and "fringe" ideas would color my review and it is not my wish to subject you to what I believe, but to encourage you to do your own research and to question everything. Do your own research. Use your mind to think and to reason and not just blindly accept what you are told to believe.
As far as the novel itself, it is an amazing and well crafted,(pardon the pun) story. I found many of the characters very likeable and equally there were many that I found repugnant in the extreme. There are also unlikely heroes sprinkled here and there throughout this novel.
Author Brian Parker is someone whose writing I had never been exposed to prior to getting this audiobook. I can tell you that I will be looking for more of his writing in the future.
Narrator Roberto Scarlato did a wonderful job of voice acting in this audiobook. There are so many different voices and accents, it seemed to me a rather formidable job he undertook to bring these characters alive. I was truly impressed with his voice acting and he is a narrator whose work I will be happy to listen to again.
I believe anyone from the ages of 14 and above might enjoy this audiobook/book. I found some of the descriptions to be a bit too graphic for my taste, but as I read to be entertained, I don't normally care for violence to any great degree. However the truth of the matter is there is much violence in real life, as we all know.
This is a very good book if you have an open mind and enjoy a mixture of real history and science fiction, or speculative science fiction.
Author: Brian Parker
Narrator: Roberto Scarlato
Listening Time: 9 hours 42 minutes
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.
I always like to preface any reviews I give with this information.
I am a 68 year old female who has been an avid reader since I was around 10 or 11 years old.
I read mainly for entertainment purposes although I do a lot of research in areas of personal interest.
I have a great interest in many things. Ancient History and Archeology are at the top of a very long list.
Review: This review is for the Audiobook version of: Grudge: Operation Highjump
The true event known as "Operation Highjump" is a fact of history. You can research those facts for yourself to draw your own conclusions. There is much information that is considered to be "fringe" information that is also available for your perusal. Once again, I would say to draw your own conclusions there as well.
This novel is based in part on the facts of Operation Highjump. There are parts of this novel that involve "conspiracy theory" ideas as well; also some history involving Nazis of WWII.
In addition to this; I found that Brian Parker's creative imagination and writing, has orchestrated these elements into a very suspenseful, fast-moving novel that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the story. I listened to this audiobook in one setting.
At the start of this novel we are introduced to dual timelines. One timeline is in the 1940s, involving the end of the second World War in Europe.
The other timeline involves the very near future, (the year 2020 forward through 2025).
Rather than giving a synopsis of the storyline and then my review, I am going to do this review differently.
This is a book that I hesitate to actually get into the plot and subplots because I believe it is important that you draw your own conclusions.
My personal beliefs about "hidden history", "the military industrial complex", "conspiracy theory" "ufos" and "fringe" ideas would color my review and it is not my wish to subject you to what I believe, but to encourage you to do your own research and to question everything. Do your own research. Use your mind to think and to reason and not just blindly accept what you are told to believe.
As far as the novel itself, it is an amazing and well crafted,(pardon the pun) story. I found many of the characters very likeable and equally there were many that I found repugnant in the extreme. There are also unlikely heroes sprinkled here and there throughout this novel.
Author Brian Parker is someone whose writing I had never been exposed to prior to getting this audiobook. I can tell you that I will be looking for more of his writing in the future.
Narrator Roberto Scarlato did a wonderful job of voice acting in this audiobook. There are so many different voices and accents, it seemed to me a rather formidable job he undertook to bring these characters alive. I was truly impressed with his voice acting and he is a narrator whose work I will be happy to listen to again.
I believe anyone from the ages of 14 and above might enjoy this audiobook/book. I found some of the descriptions to be a bit too graphic for my taste, but as I read to be entertained, I don't normally care for violence to any great degree. However the truth of the matter is there is much violence in real life, as we all know.
This is a very good book if you have an open mind and enjoy a mixture of real history and science fiction, or speculative science fiction.
August 20, 2019
At the end of WWII, thousands of Nazis escaped from Europe via “ratlines” to South America, the escape routes being supported by the Catholic Church. There were two primary routes: the first went from Germany to Spain, then Argentina; the second from Germany to Rome to Genoa, then South America. Suspicions arose that a German facility, to continue experiments started in Europe, may have been developed on the Southern Continent of Antarctica. For several years the U.S. Navy conducted searches of the area under the guise of a Navy training exercise. Some enemy contact was made but the severe weather was a constant interference. Eventually, the conflict in Southeast Asia took precedence over military involvement. After twelve years of surveillance, never finding any facility, the U.S. nuked the area before moving on. This is the background for the main story. As we jump to current day, the Nazi threat has returned, stronger and more capable than before. How is this possible? Where did they come from and how were they concealed for so long? Get ready for a thoroughly enjoyable sci-fi conspiracy thriller. Operation Highjump was also recently mentioned in a Christopher Cartwright, Sam Reilly novel #13 “The Holy Grail”. If you’re interested in more on this subject check out that novel. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
May 16, 2017
WHAT A GREAT BOOK!!!!!
This is one book that everyone should read, it is such a great book!!!!!! I love how Brian Parker worked Germany's Nazis's from WWII with advance technology bringing this story into the future. Using cryogenics as a way to show how this could happen makes this story super. I wasn't sure about this book, as I definitely love to read books with a Military background in them, but the advance technology, which I'm calling "Sci Fi" made me unsure. But I've read another series by Brian, the "Washington: Dead City Series" and that series was awesome. So I decided to give this one a read and was so very happy I did. This really is a super great book. I so hope many others check this one out and look at the other books Brian Parker has written. He ROCKS!!!!!!
This is one book that everyone should read, it is such a great book!!!!!! I love how Brian Parker worked Germany's Nazis's from WWII with advance technology bringing this story into the future. Using cryogenics as a way to show how this could happen makes this story super. I wasn't sure about this book, as I definitely love to read books with a Military background in them, but the advance technology, which I'm calling "Sci Fi" made me unsure. But I've read another series by Brian, the "Washington: Dead City Series" and that series was awesome. So I decided to give this one a read and was so very happy I did. This really is a super great book. I so hope many others check this one out and look at the other books Brian Parker has written. He ROCKS!!!!!!
July 13, 2017
So Hitler (vegetarian) suffered from gout due to excessive consumption of meat? Fort Stewart, GA is a major army post? It is often called "Camp Swampy" after the remote, lonely post in the old Beetle Bailey cartoons. People should do at least minimal research about military things prior to writing about them. There are often little things that an author goofs up and it is SF, but...
I just gave up on this one.
I just gave up on this one.
October 7, 2019
This is one of the standing questions that i had after the end of WW2, what happened and why there was a need to execute Operation High Jump, what was the intent. Was really a nuclear detonation in the antarica, was new schwabiland operational in 1945, were the habbenau also operational?, the book had all the prerequisites of a more complex work.
July 12, 2017
Excellent
Probably Mr. Parkers best work. Fast paced and energetic this story combines history and near future action seamlessly, throw in a dash of aliens and you have the full meal deal. I would recommend this novel to anyone who takes their reading seriously.
Probably Mr. Parkers best work. Fast paced and energetic this story combines history and near future action seamlessly, throw in a dash of aliens and you have the full meal deal. I would recommend this novel to anyone who takes their reading seriously.
May 15, 2018
Interesting concept and fun read
Seem to end rather quickly and looks for maybe a sequel in the mix. I would read the next part if there is one. Would recommend to people interested in UFOs and WW2
Seem to end rather quickly and looks for maybe a sequel in the mix. I would read the next part if there is one. Would recommend to people interested in UFOs and WW2
June 17, 2017
Another great military story by Brian Parker
This author creates amazing stories in the military genre. I love his style of writing and highly recomend this one!
This author creates amazing stories in the military genre. I love his style of writing and highly recomend this one!
September 8, 2017
Fantastic, action-packed story. Love the blending of WWII, present and future. I'll be reading more from this author. Thank you Jim Obenshain for the recommendation.
February 24, 2018
A very interesting book about Nazi invasion of America from Antarctica. Well moving.
April 1, 2018
Wow!
What a story! Loved the book. The weaving together of Operation High Jump, and Nazi speculation made this story extremely entertaining. Hope there is a sequel in the works!
What a story! Loved the book. The weaving together of Operation High Jump, and Nazi speculation made this story extremely entertaining. Hope there is a sequel in the works!
June 9, 2018
Holy Crap!
Great book, Nazi's, aliens and an ineffective bureaucracy all mixed up, lots of battles, gritty fighting, lots of fun in this read!
Great book, Nazi's, aliens and an ineffective bureaucracy all mixed up, lots of battles, gritty fighting, lots of fun in this read!
July 14, 2019
New Favorite
Good read. Hard to put down well written. Good flow of the different time lines. Enjoy the book from beginning to the end.
Good read. Hard to put down well written. Good flow of the different time lines. Enjoy the book from beginning to the end.
September 24, 2019
( Format : Audiobook )
"This is a sh***y mess any way you want to cut it."
Hitler didn't die in Berlin in 1945 but in Antarctica a year later, suffering from gout from the overconsumption of meat and a massive heart attack brought on by anger at the slow progression of his plans. This alternate history, science fiction, ultra fast action, cartoonesque military farce starts at a run and just keeps getting swifter. Suspension of disbelief? - no, just throw away any idea of sanity and hold on tight.
Narration is by Roberto Scarlato, who provides an excellently fluid and we'll intimated reading with each protagonist individually vkiced. A good performance, though slightly too slow for this reader: dialling up the playback speed to 1.25 quickly resolved that problem.
This is a bizarre book and could well be the opening volume of a new series. I have to thank the rights holder of Grudge, who, at my request via Audiobook Boom, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy. It started well despite the numerous leaps in place and time, drawing me in with it's secret conspiracy ideas, but lost me as everything seemed to come apart - more dream than S.F. I doubt that I will bother to read on should a next book become avaiable. Recommend it? Not really, but there are sure to be plenty out there to whom this sardonic annihilation would appeal.
"This is a sh***y mess any way you want to cut it."
Hitler didn't die in Berlin in 1945 but in Antarctica a year later, suffering from gout from the overconsumption of meat and a massive heart attack brought on by anger at the slow progression of his plans. This alternate history, science fiction, ultra fast action, cartoonesque military farce starts at a run and just keeps getting swifter. Suspension of disbelief? - no, just throw away any idea of sanity and hold on tight.
Narration is by Roberto Scarlato, who provides an excellently fluid and we'll intimated reading with each protagonist individually vkiced. A good performance, though slightly too slow for this reader: dialling up the playback speed to 1.25 quickly resolved that problem.
This is a bizarre book and could well be the opening volume of a new series. I have to thank the rights holder of Grudge, who, at my request via Audiobook Boom, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy. It started well despite the numerous leaps in place and time, drawing me in with it's secret conspiracy ideas, but lost me as everything seemed to come apart - more dream than S.F. I doubt that I will bother to read on should a next book become avaiable. Recommend it? Not really, but there are sure to be plenty out there to whom this sardonic annihilation would appeal.
April 30, 2017
Another good one by Brian Parker
A great twist on history by Parker, who is earning a spot among my favorite authors! Fans of alt history will dig this one.
A great twist on history by Parker, who is earning a spot among my favorite authors! Fans of alt history will dig this one.
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