Day of Judgment - BookWyrm

Paperback, 275 pages

English language

Published 1980 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-23346-9

(1 review)

June 26, 1963. JFK’s triumphal visit to divided Berlin is about to trigger catastrophe for the Free World... East German Intelligence—with the aid of a renegade American—has set a diabolical snare. And now, only a desperate team of Allied operatives—six monks, an American priest, a British major and a young woman doctor who has played into Communist hands— can save the West from a terrifying Day of Judgment

1 edition

ospalh reviewed Day of Judgment by Jack Higgins (Simon Vaughn, #3)

Too many Nazis and war criminals

2 stars

Content warning Plot points and Nazis

So, yeah. When you are a GDR border guard who as actually found a Western agent, or when you are a NVA pilot defending his home country against the same agents, you get killed off by the author. One of them just plainly murdered, the other driven into an air crash. But when you are a literal Nazi who murdered Jews with the Einsatzgruppen, you get to escape, with a promise of no prosecution in the West. Bah. The protagonist is a war criminal, too, but he killed for Britain.

The rest of the plot: OK, it was entertaining. But silly. Basically all the details are off, as i wrote in my quotes and comments.

Somehow we are to believe that Mr Vaughn fell in love with Ms Campbell. That was done so perfunctory that i totally missed that plot point when it was first made. But Higgins needed something to motivate Vaughn, and apparently couldn’t come up with anything believable.

Subjects

Cold War