Operation Napoleon -- Arnaldur Indridason

from dgmlrhodes

This book is a great action/adventure story. It is a quick, easy read. Unlike many books translated into English, this book is clear, concise and easy to follow. The story is mostly plot driven, not character driven. Although I did want to know some of the characters a bit more deeply, I did not ...

from tottman

Operation Napoleon is a great suspense thriller that spans from the waning days of WWII to the present. A plane carrying German and American officers crashes onto a glacier during a blizzard at the end of the second world war and quickly becomes swallowed up by the glacier. A search for the downe...

from Beamis12

This is the first Nordic novel I have read that it more an historical thriller than a mystery. Thriller's are usually not my genre yet the historical storyline was so enticing that I had to read it. Read it and really enjoyed it. Towards the end of World War II, as Russia is advancing on Berlin, ...

from snotbottom

It is worth noting that this was originally written in Icelandic and the translation occasionally mixes in something that I wouldn't expect to find in a thriller such as this. There was nothing incorrect in the translation, perhaps more just the opposite where the word choices are technically spo...

from mancmilhist

An intriguing thriller set in Iceland that keeps the pace up throughout to a great ending. The US have been searching since WW2 for an aircraft that crashed into a glacier with a dark secret . Satellite shows the wreck had reappeared however the US doesn't want the locals nosing around I understa...