By: nikky Howard
Submitted: 2010-07-13 22:33:38 | Word Count: 957
Operation Snowshoe may be a rare treat, a suspenseful novel that seems torn from today's headlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and what led up to them. It's a fast-paced thrill ride stuffed with intrigue, spying, and rich, complicated characterizations that build the participants within the drama that unfolds appear real enough to step off of the page. It is the story of the Chicago Mafia lawyer (or consigliere, as he's conjointly known as) Tom Kempner, his wife, Katherine, and the way when his wife gets sent a trunk containing diaries and alternative documents that had belonged to her grandfather, British WWII General Alan Cunningham, their lives get turned upside down. In fact, when their neighbor, the orthopedic surgeon R.A. Anthony Gaylani, snoops around and pilfers one of the documents, and Katherine tries to induce her husband to pay attention to the potential association between this and the present ongoing Arab/Israeli conflict in the Middle East, it costs her her life.
We have a tendency to've all heard and browse of various wheelings and dealings between the CIA and also the Mafia, but never quite like the way author Thomas Erickson deftly portrays them in this excellent dynamic novel. Everyone appears to be spying on everybody else, even whereas ostensibly cooperating with them, everyone has his own agendas, and it's difficult to grasp who are the nice guys and therefore the dangerous guys, as a result of no one is completely innocent nor above breaking the law to achieve their own goals. Erickson unfolds a cloak-and-dagger game that has its roots within the WWII era (and, one could argue, much further back, to the time of the book of Genesis in the Bible), that involves members of the British royal family, Arabic terrorist cells, 9/eleven, and Israel's right to exist as an freelance state.
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Gaylani is that the orthopedic surgeon who repaired bullet holes in Kempner's chest and his shattered leg when Tom got wounded in Vietnam. But, Katherine suspects him of being much additional than his surface cowl counsel he is - a number of the papers of her grandfather allude to another Gaylani, an Arabic one, who collaborated with the Nazis and swore his son would continue their plans. May or not it's that their next door neighbor is the son mentioned in her grandfather's papers, though he says that he's a Catholic Italian and he's married to a Jewish girl, Joanne?
Tom invitations him over as a result of Gaylani has prompt he'd like to own a wine tasting party, and he is an skilled in wines. Katherine passes out, and dies despite the doctor's tries to resuscitate her. Kempner does not like to think about it, however eventually involves believe his wife had been correct to suspect Gaylani as being part of a terrorist sleeper cell, and that Gaylani, having reason to suppose Katherine was on to him, deliberately put some sort of drug in her drink and then finished her off by strangling her beneath the pretense of attempting to revive her.
Being a lawyer for the mob and also the confidante and legal counselor for its don, Mr. Gary Barberi, still as the boyhood friend of the Deputy Director of the CIA, Admiral Eric Weiss, Kempner has assisted each the mob and the CIA before. Barberi is a trendy kind of don, who doesn't need the Chicago Mafia to deal medication, and he's got a terribly business-oriented angle regarding increasing his and the mob's wealth. Kempner comes to understand that perhaps Gaylani did not act alone in murdering his wife, and though he desires to urge revenge on the Arab who pretends to be an Italian, the CIA and the Mafia or both together would possibly additionally have worked and planned to rearrange for Katherine's untimely demise.
Conjointly, banker heiress and journalist Patricia Zwilling investigates the presumably suspicious death. Her grandfather was a ruthless banker, unconcerned with how his cash was created, investing and laundering the Mafia's unwell-gotten gains. His fortune engineered a mansion on the estate he'd bought with the money he'd created, and though the mansion was burnt to the ground, Patricia still lives within the guesthouse and is trying to now use the wealth her grandfather and father accumulated for the great, distributing a lot of of it to various charities. Her confrontations with Barberi and others are tense, and make for some of the novel's best scenes, though just about every page is interesting and if the novel was created into a movie, it might be, IMHO, a blockbuster that will earn millions.
Operation Snowshoe may be a complicated novel crammed with intrigue, and it will have you ever on the sting of your seat, reading late into the night. How will a private fight against the combined would possibly of the CIA and also the Mafia? What does a yellow Labrador Retriever named Snowshoe have to try to to with the Arb/Israeli conflict? To what lengths ought to a rustic like America, that on the surface supports freedom and equal rights for all, go to guard its sovereignty? These very important queries and several additional make up the subject matter the plot of Operation Snowshoe. This is often a novel I might highly recommend to anyone who loves mystery/thrillers, and is fascinated by the roots of nine/eleven, the Arab/Israeli conflict, and the current turmoil in the Middle East.
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