An Exchange of Eagles

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Borrowing a Day from Forsyth's Jackal and a Night from Kirst's Generals, Sela puts together three taut months of assassination pipedreams and internecine Nazi nastiness in 1940. The trick here is that the schemers are transatlantic and peace loving: Abwehr officer Paul von Osten wants to dispose of Hitler, Max Schroeder of US Army Intelligence wants that "lousy double-crossing bastard" FDR dead, and they've both turned traitor because their leaders are warmongers with A-bombs at the ready. So--an exchange of eagles, with plans for ski-bombing Adolf and Eva in their mountain chalet (Schroeder lends von Osten champion US skier Dave Stannard) and shooting FDR in Virginia (Schroeder enlists a Louisiana mauiac, saying "Huey wants you to pull the trigger"). As we know all along from dull old history, neither target falls, but the suspense churns nonetheless as a British spy and assorted Nazi bigwigs begin to figure out the twin assassination timetables. Real folks--Heydrich, GÖring, Himmler, J. Edgar Hoover, Lucky Luciano--play important roles, and FDR thinks up lend-lease right before our eyes. Such tacky touches aside, Sela handles this fact-fiction kaleidoscoping far better than most, and von Osten is as sympathetic a would-be assassin as we'll have this year. Add considerable torture and a dollop of inter-spy sex, and Operation Double Eagle has all it takes to soar.

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