Robert Ronsson’s gripping novel was published in February 2015 and yet at the time of writing this review (October 2017) there are shamefully few mentions of it anywhere. Amazon UK has just 2 reviews and Amazon US a mere 3, and there are just 15 ratings/11 reviews on Goodreads. Not much for a really intelligent, well-written, well-researched and thought-provoking novel, one which I thoroughly enjoyed. It’s a dual time frame story, with one strand set in the US and beginning on 9/11, and the other in 1930s Berlin during the rise of Nazism. An unlikely pairing, it would seem, but the author deftly has the two strands gradually converge with many surprises along the way. It’s an ambitious novel but Ronsson pulls it off with great aplomb and I found it a real page-turner. If I have any criticism it would be to say that I think it could have done without the main protagonist Jay’s womanising episodes, which for me detracted from the narrative, although I see that these episodes could be seen to fill in his character to some extent. However this is a minor quibble. It’s difficult to talk about the plot without giving too much away, so I won’t even try, but what I will say is simply “read it”. It’s well worth it, and I certainly look forward to discovering more by this accomplished writer.