Eurostorm

Book review by Deane Barker tags: fiction, espionage
An image of the cover of the book "Eurostorm"

i belong to a facebook group called spybrary, which is for people who like spy novels and movies and such. Another member of the group is a guy named Payne Harrison, who I came to understand is a spy novelist.

He had mentioned that he was annoyed at a movie called SAS: Red Notice because the climax of that movie borrowed from his novel Eurostorm which published four years earlier.

So, I decided to read his novel.

I liked it. It’s a page-turner that combines some of my favorite formats: quick chapter sections that hop around the globe, and a beginning that starts with some random, unrelated thing that turns into so, so much more.

The story concerns the rebirth of the Nazi party – the “Fourth Reich” (what was the third you ask?) and a plot to hijack a bullet train (that’s the point that Harrison got annoyed about when it showed up in a movie four years later). There’s a slight science-fiction-y aspect I didn’t love, but it’s easy to get past.

I didn’t get the feeling that it was part of a series (I can’t tell – it might be). But, regardless, it stands alone well enough.

Book Info

Author
Payne Harrison
Year
Pages
326
Acquired
↑ Outbound link to – Third Reich March 23, 2022

“Reich” is German for “empire” or “realm.” Nazis believed they were the third great empire, after the Roman empire, and the first German empire. The name was first used by Arthur Moeller in a 1923 book. Hitler popularized the name, which its assumed he found in Moeller’s works. I’m also assuming…