“The preachers who were the poor boy’s murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and… insulted heaven with prayers more blasphemous than anything he had uttered.”
– Sir Thomas James Babington Macaulay, Baron of Rothley
Frankly, I thought this book could have simply been a short story or a novella
The story actually has three protagonists, Max Cohn, a kid in present day Los Angeles, Moshe Goldenhirsch who is a young Jewish man at the heyday of World War II, and again, Moshe as an elderly retiree in present day Los Angeles
This book is a bit different than the others I read, instead of the pictures and text telling the same storyline together, this time the text and pictures follow two different stories, in two different timelines, until they eventually meet.
The narrative provides action throughout the book, which is peppered with very funny moments many of them courtesy of Office Hsu’s inner monologue
Quinn Colson is sheriff again after winning the election but Tibbehah County, Mississippi is not letting him rest. Vets robbing banks, & two girls went missing.
This is a fine book for the reader who wants to know how global events shaped the lives of individuals during the war.
Monticello is a well written and meticulously researched book told from the point of view on Martha
I simply feel that the James Bond series should have gotten a much stronger finish than two short stories and two outlines for short stories.
The characters, they are complex and three dimensional, as I mentioned none are “good” and none are “evil”, but complex human beings trying to stay alive and working for their own best interest.
