Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles

Greg Isles Books: 

1.  Spandau Phoenix (1993) 
2.  Black Cross (1995) 
3.  Mortal Fear (1997) 
4.  The Quiet Game (1999)
5.  24 Hours (2000) 
6.  Dead Sleep (2001)
7.  Sleep No More (2002) 
8.  The Footprints of God (2003) (second)
9.  Blood Memory (2005) 
10. Turning Angel (2005) 
11. True Evil (2006) 
12. Third Degree (2007)
13. The Devil's Punchbowl (2009)
14. Hard Listening--as one of The Rock Bottom Remainders (2013)  
15. The Death Factory (2014) novella (first)
16. Natchez Burning (2014)
17. The Bone Tree (2015)
18. Mississippi Blood (2017)

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It's been awhile (March 14, 2017) since I last wrote about Mr. Iles. I've been reading Spandau Phoenix (NOT Spandau Ballet, which I have to tell myself every single freakin' time) ever since then, and found it at least interesting, but I kept getting sidetracked by other books: the Osama Alomar books, the new Jo Nesbø, the Fables collections. Some other stuff as well. But Spandau was due at the library a couple of days ago and I'd renewed my last renew, and that got me motivated to push through the last couple of hundred pages. And it was pretty okay. A bit histrionic at times, what with the Nazis screaming anti-semitic things and the Jews screaming anti-nazitic things and allathat. And I wouldn't call the characters well-developed. But I don't regret reading it. The plot was pretty interesting, and I was impressed by the verisimilitude Mr. Iles was able to conjure up--especially so as I feel certain that he is not nor has he ever been a soldier of fortune involved in covert military actions in South Africa. So there's that. And now on to his second book, Black Cross. This is billed on Amazon as World War II Series Book 2, which is kind of a puzzle since it was published in 1995, two years after Spandau, but that's okay. Although I am loathe to call a 2 book series a Series, y'know? 

And I have to admit that I am not actually excited about reading another World War II (Series) Book right now, but I do want to try to do the chronological thang here, so . . . ahmo stop by the Westport Branch of the LFPL today and pluck it from the shelf.

More news as it happens.