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The Fuhrer's Reserve: A Novel of the FBI

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I love plots that deal with hidden Nazi treasures. Yet, I put this book down after 125 pages. Life is too short for characters and narative of this mediocre quality. It is the literary equivalent of a really bad made for TV movie. Some day when I am really desperate for something to read I may go back to it just for the art info.

It is a good page turner and it would make a good T V movie.Its fairly technical re Longitudes and Latitudes I found the plot stretches the imagination. I gave it a 7.5 out of 10.

I continue to enjoy Paul Lindsay's books about the FBI...they are first class thrillers and The Fuhrer's Reserve is as good as the previous offerings...thoroughly enjoyable!

The Fuhrer's Reserve is a very readable book. Lindsay gives some depth to the main character, FBI Agent Taz Fallon, by giving him emotional issues. The problem is, you still do not really care about him. He is merely an instrument providing a means to an end.

The plot is original, and littered with attempted plot twists. What I am trying to say is that I enjoyed reading this book, and I am not upset that I spent my time reading this book, but the plot twists and revelations were as easy to anticipate as sunrise and sunset.

Very compelling. Keeps you on your toes. Just as good, if not better, than other Paul Lindsay novels.

Of the four Paul Lindsay books this is the weakest. It starts out well with the attempted recovery of a cache of masterpiece paintings stolen by the Nazis in WW2. There is some ingenous linkage with numbers on the frames to the location, but as the plot moves along it becomes more and more ridiculous with the mandatory romantic interest and wild shoot-em-ups. The ending is so preposterous that, unlike one review that said "it will leave readers gasping" it left this reader ready to throw up.

You are in for an education and an adventure in this fourth bok by former FBI agent, Paul Lindsay. When I first saw that the story involved the art works taken by the Third Reich, I was less than enthused as it sounded like a story that would be hard to make current or interesting. That's why Paul Lindsay writes novels and I only dream of doing so. Welcome to the world of great art and all of the nuances that it holds and also to the mind set of those that were responsible for the evils and excesses of the Third Reich. Taz Fallon, an FBI agent who is drawn into the search for the Hitler treasure finds himself willing to bend some rules in order to help Sivia Roth, an art historian who is amazingly easy on the eyes. During their efforts to discover the location of the stolen paintings they are competing with a villian by the name of Kurt Decker (son of "Hitler's commando) who has been hired by the Neo-Natzi establishment to recover the fortune and fund their return to power. The plot has many twists and turns and their are times when you believe all has been revealed, only to find that there is more. Lindsay clearly knows his subject and he tells the tale in a book that is difficult to put down.

May not have been the best book ever written and I can't say there is anything original in this one. The most annoying part was having to sit and listen to the FBI agents discover what Deker and his partners in crime had discover 20 pages ago. You could also see the "plot twists" coming from 5 miles off.

I am always a sucker for books dealing with a resergeance of the Nazi idology. I was surpised with how much I enjoyed this book it does a wonderful job of keeping you awake

Paul Lindsay has a great plot idea in The Führer's Reserve, and this could have been a good book. What Lindsay lacked was a great, or even a good, proofreader. This book is published by Simon & Schuster. I would think they could afford a decent proofreader.

Let me mention a few of the innumerable grammar and syntax problems. Of course there was the usual gaggle of split infinitives that one sees in most current writing. All right, I'll tell you what drove me the craziest. Lindsay uses the non-word "alright" probably 100 times in the novel--each time causing me to grit my teeth and beat my head against the wall. All right already! What proofreader would overlook this?

I will point out only three more examples of the sort of error one finds.

Page 76, "[E]ach of Sisley's pictures were remarkably complete in their effect." That should be: "Each of Sisley's pictures WAS remarkably complete in ITS effect."

Page 231 contains a wonderfully ambiguous sentence: "A block away from Lech's, they could see several vehicles, including TV trucks, parked haphazardly around a house." Were the vehicles a block away from Lech's or were they at Lech's and the people who saw them viewing them from a block away?

On page 322 Lindsay uses the term "malice of forethought," when one would expect any former FBI agent to know that the term actually is "malice aforethought."

I regret that what could have been an excellent novel was marred by innumerable jarring errors, which a competent proofreader would have eliminated.

Old-age Nazi members are being eliminated one after another across different continents. An FBI agent, Taz Fallon, starts to slowly investigate these bizzare incidents. He comes on a trail of someone known as The Curator, who is collecting Hitler's stolen art masterpieces from former Nazis in order to prepare for the birth of the next Reich Movement. Along with an art historian, Taz comes face to face with hired killers, art masterpieces and history which buries many old secrets. Great action and fine moving story-line.