Review Tuesday: The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum

I've been a fan of the works of Robert Ludlum for a while, but I've only read a handful of his books. I added to my stack that I have completed reading THE HOLCROFT COVENANT.

An American architect named Noel Holcroft turns out to be the unwitting stooge in a Nazi conspiracy that took decades to come to fruition.

The book starts off at the end of World War Two. The Nazis see the writing o the wall and know that time is short, so they select the children of the Reich, The Sonnenkinder, and relocate them around the world so that in a generation they would be able to get done what their parents failed at: world domination.

The book takes place during the mid-70s. Noel Holcroft is a New York architect summoned to Europe to discuss an inheritance. Some $780 million was stolen from the Third Reich and squirrelled away in Geneva so that in a generation reparations may be made. You see, Noel was indeed the son of General Clausen, one of three top ranking Nazi officials during WWII, but his mother, Althea, packed herself and her baby son up before the war erupted. Noel is the hinge-pin in the conspiracy to release that Nazi money to, what will become, the Fourth Reich. The book is about Noel's adventures around the world, trying to survive while doing the right thing, while being told lies left and right.

This is a long book with a lot of ups and downs and twists and turns like a roller coaster. It's fun and exciting. Plus, what I really liked, was the way the hero guesses EVERYTHING WRONG. Ever notice how the good guy is always brilliant and gets everything right? Not so here. It feels more like real life. He makes natural assumptions and they just all happen to be wrong! So the book ends up with an explosive ending that you NEVER see coming.

Well worth reading if you love a good thriller!