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A different slant on a historical event..., March 4, 2006
I recently received a review copy of a Cold War espionage thriller... The Berlin Conspiracy by Tom Gabbay. For a first novel, he did an excellent job.
Take yourself back to 1963... Berlin during the Cold War. Jack Teller is a retired CIA agent who decided that life wasn't for him after what happened in Cuba and the Bay of Pigs. His disillusionment has led him to spend his days fishing in southern Florida. But all that changes when his name specifically comes up as the desired contact of an East German agent who has some important information. Nobody, not even Jack, knows why this agent wants him. But he decides to go along for the ride and see what happens. After ditching his handlers to run the contact his own way, he learns that there is a plot to assassinate President Kennedy in Berlin. The unusual twist is that the plot is being run by people in the US government, and it's up to Jack to figure out who is involved and what the motivation might be. He quickly finds out that he's become a loose end that needs to be tied up, and as a result he's being framed to take the fall for the killing. The question becomes not only can Jack stay alive, but can he keep the President from being shot...
The whole "who shot Kennedy" conspiracy obviously comes into play here, and Gabbay does a nice job in approaching that from a different angle. The plot line blends pretty seamlessly into historical fact, and it's not a stretch to imagine this particular scenario playing out. This was a recreational read that I found myself looking forward to at nights when I did some reading before falling asleep. I have no doubt that if and when Tom Gabbay writes another novel, it will be on my "to read" list.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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The Espionage Novel is Alive and Well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, January 31, 2006
Do you like a great espionage novel? Do you like A great spy
novel?Have you been searching amazon.com for that book you
can't put down? Who is writing the great thrillers theses days?
A new author is in town and if you've come to this site its a
new day for you. His name is Tom Gabbay. and his book is The
Berlin Conspiracy. I am an avid reader of thrillers and have been looking for a new name , that would join the ranks of Robert Ludlum, Jack Higgins,Frederick Forsyth,and Craig Thomas.
Now we have him and his book.
We have Jack Teller a new cold war hero, not a card board character,but a character who brings you into the story and his mind,and gives the reader a real since of the era and Berlin in
1963. If you begin the book it will capture you from page one,
never let go untill the last word in the book.Spy fiction is Berlin. The story quickly becomes a wall of mirrors whoses reflections are not what they seem to be . With the Stasi and the Soviet Union , the President of the United States, and a plot that is as hair raising as a great spy novel should be,
the action comes fast, and the characters are unforgettable.
The Berlin Conspiracy has set a new standard and Tom Gabbay
is the next great spy [espionage] writer of our day.
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A Grabber, January 19, 2006
Tom Gabbay's fertile mind has created a grabber right out of the gate. I would dare anyone to read the first few pages of this masterfully crafted spy novel and then put it aside. Compared to Le Carre by others, it does indeed have some very intriguing twists and turns, but is written in a much clearer style. And Tom's imagination might have come closer to an actual occurrence than the general public will ever know. I can see this story becoming a movie or TV special sometime in the future
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