The Gingerbread Spy
A WW2 Spy Thriller

Again, Mr. Toner's book comes to Kindle without page numbering. I don't know if this is in the translating to wireless or whether Mr. Toner has the option, but I am a fanatic about pages and where I am in a book when I am forced to lay it down. Location and Minutes left do not give me the informatio......more

I liked this book but I thought the first two, particularly The Black Orchestra, were more entertaining and suspenseful. It wasn't that Spy was poorly written or not a page-turner, it was just the other two of Toner's WW II "spy" books were better. I could point to character development as the reaso......more

I like all the books in this Black Orchestra series but some of the situations that Kurt finds himself in are very contrived and frankly could have been avoided with a simple question or phone call. The characterisation however is of good quality and the use of chronology is helpful for context. My o......more

This is the 4th book in this series. I really enjoyed this book. I love the genre of spy novel based in history. With the death of Philip Kerr, I have been looking for writers to fill that void. JJ Toner is definitely one of those writers. I will be reading his whole catalog now and hope he will con......more