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The Seventh Secret (Windsor Selections)

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I've searched all over for this book because it's out of print. Read it, when you go to bed at night, you'll expect to read about it in the morning newspaper. It's soooooo realistic you will be back in time and experiencing Hitler and the war. It's not a historical novel but fiction written so well you will definitely think you are there! It's addictive and one of the reasons readers love to read! Enjoy!!!

This is an excellent read and a damn scary proposition. Hitler and the Third Reich alive and plotting world domination? Taut, exciting and compelling. Thank god it could not be true.

Emily Ashcroft goes to Berlin where her father died under mysterious circumstances while finishing his biography on Hitler.
She uncovers a horrible secret...

Although this is just a novel, it's extremely compelling and unpredictable. Wallace obviously did quite some research for this book which makes it even more fascinating to read.

This is a lot better than "Fatherland" by Robert Harris which I read also. I always wondered over the past 23 years since "The 7th Secret" has been published, why it never has been filmed. After all, "Fatherland" has been filmed and is not nearly as interesting.

10 stars!

Biographer Emily Ashcroft together with friends, search for proof that Adolf Hitler did not kill himself and his wife Eva Braun in April 1945. Sounds intriguing. The author however manages to turn this great idea into a crawling narrative that didn't even reveal why the title is "The Seventh Secret" until only halfway through the book. The characters are stereotyped and flat, the dialogue is stiff, and the whole ending is ridiculous.

There were a number of bizarre instances in the story. Here's an example. An intruder was trying to kill Emily inside her hotel room but luckily, her love interest Rex Foster came to her rescue. He managed to scare off the bad guy and instead of immediately informing the authorities, the two had sex. Ok guys, what if the killer returned? So much for their great concern for security. Another strange example is how the neo-Nazis were dealt with in the end. It's really unbelievable.

The only reason why I didn't stop reading the book is that I was curious at what the story will have said happened to Hitler. I was disappointed.

I bought this book used becaused it seemed based on a very interesting premise-that Hitler had actually survived WWII instead of committing suicide as history teaches us.

I thought the story flowed well and the mix of characters was quite good. That being said, I thought it ended rather abruptly, with the disappearance of Eva Braun. I would like to have seen an epilogue of some sort to wrap things up.

Since Wallace has supposedly passed away, I guess I can't look forward to more books by him. However, the book is a quick read, although not nearly as good as some others I've read.

I happen to be a WW II fanatic and that prompted me to pick this book. And believe me after the first 20 or so pages I started finding the book thoroughly disgusting.
The plot is miserable - the protagonist never even had to move as much as her nail to solve the mystery. Everything falls into place automatically as if by magic. The characters get added till the last few pages for the convenience of the characters trying to solve the mystery - if there was any.
If you find it hard to believe me just go by the simple fact that the cover of the book doesn't have a single review excerpt from the acclaimed book reviewers or news papers. Or was it that no one found the book worth even a mention.
Last word - Better buy some Famous Five and enjoy. A fifth grader can do a ten times (if not million times) better job of writing a novel.

I cannot agree with the other bad reviews at all.
This is so much more thrilling and fascinating to read than "Fatherland" by Robert Harris.

I read both books (I even finished reading Harris' book which was hard for me to do, but I kept hoping throughout the whole time it took me to finish reading it that the story would get better at some point, but I was very disappointed in the end) and watched the movie "Fatherland" which was also boring. I never could understnad why somebody considered the novel worth making a movie.
So of course I was wondering why "The 7th Secret" never has been filmed in 23 years since it has been published?

I hardly reread novels, because I have more than 1500 books to choose from in my private library at home, however I read this book at least 4 times...it is indeed addictive like one of the reviewers stated!

Also I did read several other Wallace novels, but they were not nearly as compelling as this one.
10 stars.

Irving Wallace makes you believe that Adolph Hitler could survive the war and that an active Nazi movement is still in existence today. Wallace outdoes himself with this action-filled thriller that presents a realism that can bring chills to any World War II survivors. Great reading.

I have read a number of historical fiction books about the end of the war and this is one of the better one. I liked the story line; it is believable once you get into the book. The author spent some time developing the plot and because of that you start to believe it. An interesting group of main characters fills out the book so that the pages really fly past you. This is a good effort by this author. If you liked this then I would suggest you look at Fatherland by Robert Harris.

My mother was in German Czechoslovaki at the end of the war and one of her fellow town folk was a driver for one of the german high command generals. He told the people that he had seen Hitler in Austria and made fun of the actor portraying him in Berlin.... who knows?