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Aug 14, 2013TheIronPaw rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Do I really have to give it one star - pity negatives aren't allowed here. The only saving grace for this book is that it is short. There is not character development, no feeling for the setting or the times (perhaps as a playwrite Wilder hoped the director would provide these). The plot is something a 10 year old boy would be ashamed of: really, an enlisted medic is injured and then promoted to an officer, given a couple of weeks training as a spy and then leads 2 rescue missions into France - but since the SS is extremely stupid he survives by cramming 6 passengers into a Lysander (1 pilot and 1 passenger). To add insult to injury this was supposed to be a romance (I spun romance on the library reading game): Teenage Ninja Turtles provides better romance.