Crossing By Night

I found a paperback edition of this book in the visitor's lounge of the Denver hospital where my wife is currently staying. The book was published in 1993 and deals with the exploits of one (Amy) Elizabeth Thorpe Pack prior to the start of WWII. The author (David Aaron) lets us know at the start tha......more

It is a reasonably good spy story, although it does work toward merging the espionage plot with what largely amounts to a gratuitously melodramatic romance, to middling effect. The idea that the female agent in question is left to trade upon her femininity for the "greater good" is not too bad, but......more

3.5. Fun book. Especially if you go in with the mindset that it will read like an old Hollywood film. That means it does lean into some cringeworthy stereotypes. Also the sex scenes were…..not good. I love a good spicy scene but not the ones in this book. To me most were graphic in an icky way or ou......more

I am not usually a spy novel reader but I picked this book up at a used book store because I was looking for something different. Elizabeth Pack is a nineteen year old girl from a military family who marries an older man (39) who is in the British Foreign Service. The adventure that she embarks upon......more

This book surprised me. I don't usually go for spy novels or historical fiction, but I had nothing else to read, so I picked this up. It was well written and believable without the usual overabundance of facts and jargon that former governmental workers tend to put in crime and spy novels. One of th......more