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Hannah Vogel #2
A Night of Long Knives
Journalist Hannah Vogel has vowed to never again set foot in her homeland of Germany while the Nazis are still in power. She has good three years ago in 1931, she kidnapped her “son,” Anton, from the man claiming to be his father--Ernst Rohm, head of the Nazis' SA. A powerful man not to be trifled with, Hannah knows that Rohm will never stop searching for them.
Hannah is asked to write about a zeppelin journey from South America to Switzerland, but Switzerland turns out to be too close. The zeppelin is diverted to Munich, where Hannah and Anton are kidnapped and, to Hannah's horror, separated.
It’s unlucky timing for Rohm, however. Hitler has ordered the execution of Rohm and hundreds of his storm troopers and is determined to wipe out any remaining traces of his name. The Night of the Long Knives has begun. When Rohm is killed before Hannah can ascertain Anton’s whereabouts, she desperately enlists all of her remaining sources and friends to locate Anton before the Nazis do. And the Gestapo is closing in…
Thrilling and powerful, A Night of Long Knives breathtakingly recreates a shattered and betrayed city as it plunges into darkness.
Hannah is asked to write about a zeppelin journey from South America to Switzerland, but Switzerland turns out to be too close. The zeppelin is diverted to Munich, where Hannah and Anton are kidnapped and, to Hannah's horror, separated.
It’s unlucky timing for Rohm, however. Hitler has ordered the execution of Rohm and hundreds of his storm troopers and is determined to wipe out any remaining traces of his name. The Night of the Long Knives has begun. When Rohm is killed before Hannah can ascertain Anton’s whereabouts, she desperately enlists all of her remaining sources and friends to locate Anton before the Nazis do. And the Gestapo is closing in…
Thrilling and powerful, A Night of Long Knives breathtakingly recreates a shattered and betrayed city as it plunges into darkness.
320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Rebecca Cantrell
61 books541 followersA few years ago Rebecca Cantrell quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Hawaii to write a novel because, at seven, she decided that she would be a writer. Now she writes the award-winning Hannah Vogel mystery series set in Berlin in the 1930s. “A Trace of Smoke,” "A Night of Long Knives," "A Game of Lies," and "A City of Broken Glass." She also co-writes the Order of Sanguines series with James Rollins, starting with the upcoming book 1: "The Blood Gospel." And she writes the iMonster series as Bekka Black, including "iDrakula" and "iFrankenstein."
A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in the 1980s inspired “A Trace of Smoke.” Fluent in German, she received her high school diploma from the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berlin and studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Georg August Universität in Göttingen.
When she visited Berlin in the summer of 2006, she was astounded to discover that many locations in her novel have been rebuilt and reopened in the last few years, including the gay bar El Dorado and the Mosse House publishing house.
Her short story “Coffee” will appear in the “Missing” anthology in February 2009.
Her screenplay “The Humanitarian” was a finalist at Shriekfest 2008: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival. Her screenplay “A Taste For Blood” was a finalist at the Shriekfest 2007: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival.
As of this writing, she lives in Berlin with her Ironman husband and son.
A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in the 1980s inspired “A Trace of Smoke.” Fluent in German, she received her high school diploma from the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berlin and studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Georg August Universität in Göttingen.
When she visited Berlin in the summer of 2006, she was astounded to discover that many locations in her novel have been rebuilt and reopened in the last few years, including the gay bar El Dorado and the Mosse House publishing house.
Her short story “Coffee” will appear in the “Missing” anthology in February 2009.
Her screenplay “The Humanitarian” was a finalist at Shriekfest 2008: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival. Her screenplay “A Taste For Blood” was a finalist at the Shriekfest 2007: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival.
As of this writing, she lives in Berlin with her Ironman husband and son.
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April 26, 2016
The Hannah Vogel series by Rebecca Cantrell is just terrific reading. The characters are interesting and pull at your emotions, and the setting and background of Nazi Germany in the 1930s is fascinating and well portrayed. I stayed up to 1:00 am last night to finish this one.
May 30, 2022
I'm not good at continuing with reading series, but I'm glad I finally got round to the second book in the Hannah Vogel series, albeit so many years after the first book that I remembered little about it. I will try not to let as much time pass before the third book! Vogel is a Berlin reporter in the 1930s who has been living under an assumed name abroad since the conclusion of book one. As the story opens, her zeppelin flight is unexpectedly diverted to Germany on the eve of the Night of the Long Knives, when the Nazis purged their own. A good page-turner. 3.5.
January 18, 2013
If you love historical mystery series, you'll enjoy the second installment of the Hannah Vogel series. Three years after the Trace of Smoke left off with, a Night of Long Knives continues Hannah's story. She's on the run from the Nazi and Ernst Rohm with Anton, after their zeppelin trip got derailed, when they're kidnapped and separated. And it takes Hannah a dangerous turn, when people want to tear them apart and put them in harm's way. From Hannah's point of view, we see her struggles on trusting people and finding some help from strangers or acquaintances along the way, while her love for Boris is real, and so is for Anton, her "son." There's plenty of twists and turns with historical accuracy in the 1930s during the first World War, that makes you take you right there at the war front with actual reality. What a rush. I can't wait to read more in the next two installments in the series, somewhere down the road.
January 31, 2016
This series is the "girl" version of Kerr's Berlin Noir. You have to outlast a mediocre read book one first. But Cantrell really jumps into fifth gear in this, book two. I wish she hadn't quit after book four; I haven't tried her other, co-authored series.
May 17, 2010
Could not put this down. Suspenseful until the last page.
July 23, 2020
Better than book 1 in the series
February 26, 2011
I'm extremely fond of books about the 40 or so years preceding my own birth, especially the ominous time between the two World Wars. Rebecca Cantrell's books fall into that category and I've liked them a lot, although she admits to taking a lot of liberties with the history of Nazi Germany.
A NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES is the second in Cantrell's series (I hope it continues for quite a while!) about reporter Hannah Vogel. Set largely in Berlin, this volume takes place in 1934, and those familiar with history will immediately understand the title. If you enjoy reading historical mysteries, go and read Cantrell's first book, A TRACE OF SMOKE, now and then come back, because it's difficult to talk about the current book without spoiling the first.
In other words: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
As the book opens, three years after the events of the previous volume, Hannah and her informally adopted son Anton are on board a Zeppelin headed from South America to Switzerland. This is as close as
they have been to Germany since they fled at the end of A TRACE OF SMOKE. In an unscheduled landing in Bavaria, Hannah's worst fears begin to be realized and she finds herself separated from Anton and
under the control of SA leader Ernst Röhm, her late brother's lover and, he claims, Anton's father. Röhm's ultimatum: marry him (to defuse tales of his homosexuality) or she will never see Anton again. But events overtake Röhm and most other members of the SA (the "brownshirts" who helped propel Hitler to power) and Hannah escapes to search for Anton. Her search takes her to Munich and then to Berlin,
never quite sure whom she can trust. Along the way, she encounters old friends in changed circumstances and sees the changes that the years under Hitler have already brought. Through it all she is still a
reporter, risking her life to take down the stories she hears from the grieving widows and mothers of SA members killed in the Night of Long Knives. An unexpected alliance seems to be setting the stage for
further adbentures as the Thirties continue their inexorable march to war.
I especially enjoy these books because of the Berlin setting (I lived there for a year, nearly 40 years ago). Cantrell has also lived in Berlin and has done her research into the past well, yet doesn't beat
the reader over the head with it. Something I'd never encountered before was the description of what it was like to travel on a Zeppelin. A very different experience from modern air travel! Cantrell's afterword points out where she has taken liberties with history and gives updates on some of the locations. There is also a glossary of German terms which will be helpful for those who don't
speak German. Highly recommended; I look forward to more books about Hannah Vogel and congratulate Rebecca Cantrell on her Bruce Alexander Award nomination.
A NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES is the second in Cantrell's series (I hope it continues for quite a while!) about reporter Hannah Vogel. Set largely in Berlin, this volume takes place in 1934, and those familiar with history will immediately understand the title. If you enjoy reading historical mysteries, go and read Cantrell's first book, A TRACE OF SMOKE, now and then come back, because it's difficult to talk about the current book without spoiling the first.
In other words: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
As the book opens, three years after the events of the previous volume, Hannah and her informally adopted son Anton are on board a Zeppelin headed from South America to Switzerland. This is as close as
they have been to Germany since they fled at the end of A TRACE OF SMOKE. In an unscheduled landing in Bavaria, Hannah's worst fears begin to be realized and she finds herself separated from Anton and
under the control of SA leader Ernst Röhm, her late brother's lover and, he claims, Anton's father. Röhm's ultimatum: marry him (to defuse tales of his homosexuality) or she will never see Anton again. But events overtake Röhm and most other members of the SA (the "brownshirts" who helped propel Hitler to power) and Hannah escapes to search for Anton. Her search takes her to Munich and then to Berlin,
never quite sure whom she can trust. Along the way, she encounters old friends in changed circumstances and sees the changes that the years under Hitler have already brought. Through it all she is still a
reporter, risking her life to take down the stories she hears from the grieving widows and mothers of SA members killed in the Night of Long Knives. An unexpected alliance seems to be setting the stage for
further adbentures as the Thirties continue their inexorable march to war.
I especially enjoy these books because of the Berlin setting (I lived there for a year, nearly 40 years ago). Cantrell has also lived in Berlin and has done her research into the past well, yet doesn't beat
the reader over the head with it. Something I'd never encountered before was the description of what it was like to travel on a Zeppelin. A very different experience from modern air travel! Cantrell's afterword points out where she has taken liberties with history and gives updates on some of the locations. There is also a glossary of German terms which will be helpful for those who don't
speak German. Highly recommended; I look forward to more books about Hannah Vogel and congratulate Rebecca Cantrell on her Bruce Alexander Award nomination.
July 12, 2011
#2 Hannah Vogel historical mystery set in 1930's Germany. Hannah and her son by default, Anton, are on a zeppelin from South America (where they have been hiding for 3 years) to Switzerland, covering a news story, when it is diverted to Germany. Ernst Rohm has found her and captures Hannah and Anton--who is supposedly his natural son--intending to force her to marry him to quash rumors of his (forbidden) homosexuality. Before that can happen, Rohm is snatched and executed by Hitler, and someone has kidnapped Anton. Hannah will not leave Germany until she gets him back and this leads her on a dangerous journey that puts her life in mortal danger many times as she struggles to figure out who she can trust.
Excellent second entry in this series with immersion into the culture of Germany as the Nazi party is just coming into control of the country. Hannah is an interesting, well-fleshed character and I look forward to the next entry to see what she gets up to. Highly recommended!
Excellent second entry in this series with immersion into the culture of Germany as the Nazi party is just coming into control of the country. Hannah is an interesting, well-fleshed character and I look forward to the next entry to see what she gets up to. Highly recommended!
August 17, 2010
I was such a fan of Rebecca Cantrell's award-winning debut "A Trace of Smoke" that I began Book Two in the Hannah Vogel series right away. Too many times I’ve encountered second bookitis from promising talent, yet not in this case. Again, Cantrell captivates with lyrical prose rich with detail so sharp this reader could practically hear the Nazi jackboots striking the cobblestones of 1934 Berlin. A heartrending, and at times heartbreaking, journey with hooks ending each chapter that dare you to stop flipping the pages. Kudos again to Cantrell! More awards surely await her “A Night of Long Knives”.
August 16, 2010
Cantrell's second book in the Hannah Vogel series is a true page-turner. The historical setting is remarkably vivid, as we see from the first scene in which the zeppelin carrying Hannah and her son Anton is diverted into Germany. A smart thriller with unforgettable characters. I look forward to the next book in the series!
December 21, 2011
I read this book early in the year. I'm not sure how much truth there is to this story, but if I remember correctly, this is based on true events, though, I don't think the main character is real. I enjoyed reading this book a lot. I wish I would have known this was book #2 of 3. It would have been nice to read the first one first.
July 28, 2012
Better than the first novel in the Hannah Vogel series--and it was good. Set in Berlin during Hitler's purge of the SA, headed by Ernst Rohm--now known as the "Night of Long Knives." Unfortunately, Hannah and her son are caught in the middle of it. Good plotting and suspense.
March 25, 2014
This is a fantastic series. I love Hannah, the crime reporter and her commitment to balance the wrongs of Hitler's pre-WW2 Germany. The confusion, fear, betrayal and denial of persecution, violence, genocide and power are palpable. Evil has a heartbeat in her works.
August 9, 2010
Very dramatic and a great mystery.
December 22, 2016
I have just started reading Hannah Vogel #3 as I am now addicted to this series.
This is one of those series where background from previous books is used so very happy I started at #1.
This is one of those series where background from previous books is used so very happy I started at #1.
April 27, 2019
I think that writing a series of novels places some heavy burdens on an author. A character is introduced in the first book and (hopefully) more fully developed in subsequent novels. However, there is a delicate balance to be observed between assuming some knowledge of the character and reintroducing the character for someone who has not read the previous book. Too much reintroduction runs the risk of boring the continuing reader and not enough reference to the previous book risks leaving the reader dangling in space unsure of the direction of the story. A Night of Long Knives is a case in point. I had read the previous novel, A Trace of Smoke, eight years ago and just came across the sequel recently. I had forgotten most of the details of the first and the second did not help to fill me in. Some things jogged my memory but did not give me a sense of continuity. The story revolves around Anton, the supposed son of Ernst Roehm, the head of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers/Brownshirts). How Hannah comes to be in possession of him is not made terribly clear. References are made to her brother who, it seems, was involved with Roehm and died (it is unclear to me how that happened). The "Night of Long Knives" refers to a bloody purge of the SA by Hitler in which Roehm and numbers of SA members were executed (Roehm and many of those killed were homosexual and this event is seen as a consolidation of power by Hitler in an attempt to make the Nazi movement more readily acceptable to the ordinary Germans). The events of the Night of Long Knives forms only a background to this story; it does not take center stage as you would expect from the title.
One thing that Cantrell does well with this novel is communicating the paranoia of German society in the late 1930s. From a small group of disaffected workers and ex-soldiers, the Nazi Party grew in to the only power in the state, more by coercion and fear than popular acclaim. One joined the Party because one was afraid not to. The Party infiltrated every segment of society, both social and governmental, from youth to old age. Even if you didn't agree with Nazi policies, you joined up since there were consequences if you didn't; many professionals and civil servants joined the party because they feared loss of their job or livelihood. To get a sense of this pervasive atmosphere is probably the best reason to read this book.
One thing that Cantrell does well with this novel is communicating the paranoia of German society in the late 1930s. From a small group of disaffected workers and ex-soldiers, the Nazi Party grew in to the only power in the state, more by coercion and fear than popular acclaim. One joined the Party because one was afraid not to. The Party infiltrated every segment of society, both social and governmental, from youth to old age. Even if you didn't agree with Nazi policies, you joined up since there were consequences if you didn't; many professionals and civil servants joined the party because they feared loss of their job or livelihood. To get a sense of this pervasive atmosphere is probably the best reason to read this book.
October 15, 2019
I liked the first Hannah Vogel book so much that I immediately got "A Night of Long Knives" (which I liked so much that I then immediately got the third book, which I am now reading). Once again, Hannah Vogel, a former crime reporter, finds herself being pursued by Ernst Rohm (once a close ally of Hitler, and an openly gay man). Rohm has wanted her to marry him to help quelch the rumors about his homosexuality. In the first book, Rohm has had a son named Anton (in history there is no evidence he had a son, but this makes for a great story). The son had been left by his birth mother with Hannah who is has been raising the boy for the past three years in South America but they now find themselves in Germany and Anton is abducted. The book is largely about Hannah's quest to try and find her son but includes lots of Nazi intrigue and various events that are inspired by actual history. I like these books because the author has done great research and wraps up the books by explaining what was true and what is fiction. I learn bits of history I'd not known before. Importantly, I find myself so immersed in the story that I lose track of all else. Well done.
September 27, 2017
A Night of the Long Knives actually occurred in 1934 as the Nazis rose to power. Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, leader of the S.S., executed Ernst Rohm, leader of the S.A., and hundreds of S.A. members for reasons of sexual orientation or guilt by association.
In Book 1 of this series, "A Taste of Smoke", we meet Hannah Vogel and her "son", Anton, age 6, who might be the biological son of Ernst Rohm. In Book 2, "Night of the Long Knives", Anton becomes an irresistible target for kidnappers because Hitler swears that Rohm was incapable of fathering a child. If Hitler is proved wrong then he loses credibility before a public that increasingly believes the "Fuhrer" is infallible.
Both books are excellent, and I plan to read Book 3, but I would criticize Book 2 for the following reason: Cantrell has Hannah perform several unbelievable feats of daring-do that are not necessary to move the story forward. Example: She prepares to use a Lugar pistol while flying in a hydrogen-filled zeppelin. A writer of Cantrell's quality can think up better imagery.
In Book 1 of this series, "A Taste of Smoke", we meet Hannah Vogel and her "son", Anton, age 6, who might be the biological son of Ernst Rohm. In Book 2, "Night of the Long Knives", Anton becomes an irresistible target for kidnappers because Hitler swears that Rohm was incapable of fathering a child. If Hitler is proved wrong then he loses credibility before a public that increasingly believes the "Fuhrer" is infallible.
Both books are excellent, and I plan to read Book 3, but I would criticize Book 2 for the following reason: Cantrell has Hannah perform several unbelievable feats of daring-do that are not necessary to move the story forward. Example: She prepares to use a Lugar pistol while flying in a hydrogen-filled zeppelin. A writer of Cantrell's quality can think up better imagery.
November 20, 2021
The Night of Long Knives is the second book in the Hannah Vogel series. This one finds our heroine returning to Germany right before Hitler’s purge of the SA, the Night of the Long Knives. Hannah hadn’t intended to return to Germany, but instead to Switzerland under her guise as a Swiss journalist, but she and Anton are captured by Ernst Rohm in his unrelenting desire to control them both. Famously, Rohm is executed during the Night of Long Knives, and in the story, Anton disappears. What we get here is Hannah’s quest to find Anton and save him from the Nazi’s.
Ms. Cantrell’s storylines are meticulous and well written. There are always plot twists that keep me guessing and turning the page, and I’m ready to pick up the next volume already! You can tell she’s done her research. I love the fact that the heroine is a strong female character, who loves her country, but hates the Nazis and everything they stand for. This is a perspective that we rarely get in entertainment.
Ms. Cantrell’s storylines are meticulous and well written. There are always plot twists that keep me guessing and turning the page, and I’m ready to pick up the next volume already! You can tell she’s done her research. I love the fact that the heroine is a strong female character, who loves her country, but hates the Nazis and everything they stand for. This is a perspective that we rarely get in entertainment.
September 28, 2017
I really liked the 2nd in this series even more than the first. Set in pre-WWII Berlin, at the beginning of the Nazi stranglehold on Germany, Hannah Vogel, a former reporter for a Berline newspaper, returns to Berlin with her adopted son, Anton. The problems from the first novel continue to plague Hannah - Anton's purported birth father, the secretly gay and head of the SA Ernst Rohm, kidnaps Hannah and Anton as soon as they land in Berlin. His plan: to marry Hannah and keep Anton as his son as a cover for his homosexuality thereby throwing the Nazis off his scent.
Hannah and Anton become separated, and the rest of the novel details Hannah's desperate attempts to recovering him and getting away from Rohm. The details of the Nazi's rise to power and details of the purge - The Night of the Long Knives - are well-detailed and really serve to highlight the horrors of what's to come. Highly recommended.
Hannah and Anton become separated, and the rest of the novel details Hannah's desperate attempts to recovering him and getting away from Rohm. The details of the Nazi's rise to power and details of the purge - The Night of the Long Knives - are well-detailed and really serve to highlight the horrors of what's to come. Highly recommended.
June 17, 2018
Hannah Vogel ends up in Germany with Anton after their zeppelin makes an Emergency stop in Germany instead of Switzerland. It is 1934. Apparently Rohm used his power to bring Anton and Hannah to Germany. When they try to escape they are chloroformed and taken to Rohm. Before the wedding Rohm was forcing on Hannah in 1931 could happen Rohm is killed in A Night of Long Knives. Hitler had Rohm and many of his followers in the sa murdered. Anton and Hannah are separated and thus begins her search for her son in a Germany that is becoming more deadly every day. Rebecca Cantrell had me wanting to stay up until I finished the story. She weaves historic figures and events into fictional characters and stories. You can feel the tension and the fear. Great read.
December 4, 2021
This was just 'eh'. The actual Night of Long Knives is an interesting topic, but this has very little to do with that. First I didn't know what this was book 2 in a series, not that it made much of a difference. Still it was all about Hannah finding her adoptive son in Germany. Why go back there if you escaped 3 years ago? I don't have kids, even adopted, so I don't know what it's like to try to get one back, but I just could not connect with Hannah at all. She went through the whole book causing problem after problem and thinking every woman she encountered was jealous of her. This story was disappointing.
December 17, 2017
Want to take a trip back to Nazi Germany? Here's your ticket.
It was so well written, its extremely obvious that there is painstaking detail paid. Simply fascinating.
The book was so "alive" that I felt it to be non-fiction - and it did border on that.
Just an all around excellent read, fascinating story / mystery with characters leaping off the pages, with an amazing amount of background study done by the author.
I have read her Tesla series and most of the Sanguine series, but THIS story completely excelled and exceeded ANYTHING I expected.
HIGHLY recommended.
It was so well written, its extremely obvious that there is painstaking detail paid. Simply fascinating.
The book was so "alive" that I felt it to be non-fiction - and it did border on that.
Just an all around excellent read, fascinating story / mystery with characters leaping off the pages, with an amazing amount of background study done by the author.
I have read her Tesla series and most of the Sanguine series, but THIS story completely excelled and exceeded ANYTHING I expected.
HIGHLY recommended.
May 14, 2022
This is the second installment in a trilogy of Hannah Vogel, and undercover journalist in Germany during World War II. I don't feel it was detrimental to have not read book one, although I will try to go find it somewhere. I also would like to read book three. The time period is The Night of Long Knives where Hitler suddenly turns on his beloved Brown Shirt SA units. Economy is suffering and many Jews are also disappearing. There are excellent descriptions of the time period and lives of the people. Hannah is searching for recently kidnapped adoptive son. I highly recommend.
February 10, 2024
When will authors, and publishers, recognise the difference between a series and a serial?
This book is marketed as Book 2 of a "series", but is really the second instalment of a serial. In a series, each story is complete in itself, but has the same main characters as in the other stories. If I am left with unanswered questions, then I am reading a serial! Nothing wrong with that - but I would like to know beforehand!
This, together with some errors (see my comments), take a star away from an otherwise good read.
This book is marketed as Book 2 of a "series", but is really the second instalment of a serial. In a series, each story is complete in itself, but has the same main characters as in the other stories. If I am left with unanswered questions, then I am reading a serial! Nothing wrong with that - but I would like to know beforehand!
This, together with some errors (see my comments), take a star away from an otherwise good read.
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April 21, 2020Sequel to "A Trace of Smoke," in which our heroine--who escaped Germany in the last book--find the zeppelin on which she's traveling diverted back to Germany and once again has to connive her way through a Germany that has become very suspicious of itself. Set against the backdrop of the "night of long knives," a three day period during which people who disagreed with Hitler were executed without trial, an act which was made retroactively legal after it happened.
February 11, 2021
I felt like this story dragged on. Hannah left South America for a reporters trip to switerzland YET Anton's dad was still hunting for him. Also, how did the Bolivian couple know who they were. The story that followed of Hannah hunter Anton down was tricky to follow and seemed unrealistic in the extreme. I understand that she had connections with her previous reporting job but to get connected to high ups in the SS world.. hmmmmm
February 15, 2024
Lots of intrigue
This book is part 2 in a series. I have not read part 1 but found myself able to follow along quite easily. Although much of the book was completely fictional, the author had clearly researched the events which took place in the "Night of Long Knives". This was new to me and fascinating at the same time as being horrifying. I would be interested in reading more in this series.
This book is part 2 in a series. I have not read part 1 but found myself able to follow along quite easily. Although much of the book was completely fictional, the author had clearly researched the events which took place in the "Night of Long Knives". This was new to me and fascinating at the same time as being horrifying. I would be interested in reading more in this series.
July 26, 2018
Cantrell’s historical novels always deliver suspense and historic events, such as the Night of Long Knives, which I had not heard of before. Hannah and her “son” are separated by the Nazis, and the man who had been trying to force her into marriage. The plot thickens from there as she tries to find him. I am looking forward to the next book, which focuses on the 1936 Olympics.
May 12, 2020
It was the second in a series and it would have been better to start with the first one. The story line was intriguing and I’d like to see how things pan out with this character, this episode take place in the early days of the Nazi party during one of Hitler’s purges. Set in Berlin, it’s a page turner.
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