Brandenburg [Import] [Hardcover]

Glenn MEADE (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; Third Impression edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 045060103X
• ISBN-13: 978-0450601033
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,171,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great read! Read UK edition too--it's better than US one, November 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Brandenburg: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

A really great book! However, a small point-I first read the UK edition of this book, and then came across a US edition while in the US on hols--and noticed there are noted differences. For some reason the US editors must have decided on changes for the US market, or maybe vice versa, but for my money the UK edition is definitly superior, in pace and style. Read for yourself and see what I mean--they're almost like two different books. (I'd especially recommend the above advice to those American readers who absolutely rhapsodised about Snow Wolf--thinking it without question the best book they'd ever read--but thought Brandenbrug was perhaps not quite as good--my advice is, read the UK edition and then pass judgement! It's a terrific read, one that kept me hooked to the very end.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A meandering mess, July 19, 2004

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Bill Garrison (Oklahoma City, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brandenburg: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

Brandenburg is a novel with WWII background set in the present day. The novel opens with Paraguayan journalist Rudi Hernendez working on a story. With some equimpment he records a secret conversation between several Germans living in his country. What is on that tape is enough to get him in deep trouble, and he is abruptly killed about 1/6 into the novel. So far, the novel is interesting and captivating.

The rest of Brandenburg destroys all of that goodwill it built up in the first 80 pages by detouring into a convoluted mess of characters and clues and ultimate boredom. Joe Volkmann is part of a European "FBI" and joins up with Rudi's cousin, Erica Krantz, to find out what happened to Rudi. They traverse Paraguay looking for clues and find a picture at an abandoned mansion from 1931 of German girl on the arms of a soldier.

Who owned the mansion and who is the girl and what do German extremists have to do with it. At this point, the novel degenerates into uselessness. The best way to describe it is Volkmann going on a massive investigation. Each step turns up new characters, each interview reveals little. Any new information is usually info to aid Volkmann in his next interview, and has nothing to do with the ultimate plot.

Soon, all of the characters run together and overwhelm what little evidence the plot has given me. This novel is way to long. The search for the truth is tedious and boring. I don't recommend you read this novel.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read Meade's Resurrection Day, banned in USA!, August 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Brandenburg: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed Brandenburg very much. However, I recently finished his latest book, Resurrection Day, published only in Europe, and not in the USA (banned, I hear, because of the controversial and sensitive subject matter!) Resurrection Day is an incredible book, prescient and right up to the minute, about an Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on Washington DC--and one of the best books I've ever read, a must for Meade fans, up there with Snow Wolf, and maybe even better. You have to read Resurrection Day--it's scary, fast paced, and stunning. US readers can order it through Amazon.co.uk. Don't miss it.