The Crook Factory, (Paperback)

from Karlstar

Somewhat loosely based on history, myth and the Hemmingway legend, this is an excellent story. Simmon's does an excellent job of drawing us into the past, and making it compelling. There's a little history in this book, but mostly just an enjoyable story.

from pife43

I pushed my way thru this one. The story is deep, chewy, and exciting and I was attracted to it to learn about Hemmingways character mainly. The book is worth the read just for that matter alone. But the adventure is gripping, has great twists, and is well written.I like Dan Simmons books, but mu...

from command3r

The Crook Factory was an engaging read that despite its length kept me engaged for the duration of the story. It did drag a bit with an extensive epilogue that was unnecessary, but I can forgive that with the idea that the author wanted to detail the real endings to the actual people and events u...

from viking2917

Dan Simmons has written a number of fantastic books - some of my favorites are Hyperion, Illium, and Flashback, mostly in the Science Fiction realm. But he's wide ranging - Drood was a widely regarded novel based on the life of Charles Dickens and he's also written various Horror novels. In The C...

from Hagelstein

An interesting thing about this fictional account of Ernest Hemingway's amateur intelligence gathering, spy-catching and German submarine-hunting operation in Cuba during the early years of WWII is that it is "all the more incredible for being 95 percent true," according to the author, Dan Simmon...