The Kaiser's Web by Steve BerryMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Steve Berry returns with his annual high-stakes thriller examining the dark side of recent history - in this case, getting down and dirty with what may have happened when the Nazi regime fell, because we all know a lot of Hitler's minions escaped to South America among other places. In this case, though, the challenge for Cotton Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt lies in figuring out whether or not it's true that a far-right nationalist candidate for German chancellor, running in opposition to the more level-headed and rational incumbent, may in fact be descended from Nazis - which, given his absurd fascination with their symbology and ideology, isn't too far out of the realm of concern. But of course Berry has a way of flipping the script 180 degrees or more every few hundred pages as Malone and Vitt travel to Germany and Chile and South Africa searching for answers, and ultimately it all builds up to one of his most striking - and strikingly tragic - resolutions yet.
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