The Devouring
Written by James R. Benn
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
4/5
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About this audiobook
James R. Benn
James R. Benn is the author of the popular Billy Boyle World War II mystery series. The debut title, Billy Boyle, was a Dilys Award nominee and one of Booksense’s top five mysteries for 2006. Subsequent titles have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and two have been tagged as “Killer Books” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Benn lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut, with his wife, Deborah Mandel. For more information, visit his website at www.jamesrbenn.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Per usual, Billy and Kaz are on loan to yet another organization, the OSS. They befriend a Sinti (gypsy) as they make their way to Switzerland. This time, they are to help the OSS with their monitoring of the secret Swiss bank accounts set up mostly by Germans. This was another very well researched historical tale, turns out neutral Switzerland is an oxymoron. Their shared borders and secretive banking rules definitely leaned somewhat toward the Germans ability to move money and gold, both for themselves and for their war effort.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Returned from France and quickly sent, with some difficulties, to Switzerland; Billy and Kaz soon find our how dangerous a neutral country can be. Following the money is fraught with connections to really dangerous people from Nazis on one side to the OSS on the other with the "not so neutral" Swiss adamant about protecting their monied clientele. A nice little vignette featuring Moe Berg, the smartest player in baseball adds some authentic color.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5THE DEVOURING by James R. Benn is the 12th episode in the Billy Boyle WWII mystery series. This time Billy, along with the urbane Polish Freedom Fighter Kaz, must make it to Switzerland as part of a secret mission to stop the Nazis from hoarding gold in Swiss banks for life after the war. Mr. Benn has once again sent his heroes into a fast paced, peril filled adventure. Their little plane was shot down by ack-ack, somewhere in souther France, a long way from their proposed destination. They are captured by a member of the Sinti ethic group fighting his own war, on a mission to kill as many Germans as possible. Together the trio form a team that takes them across the border and into the real purpose of Billy and Kaz's mission. Along the way they meet financiers and frauleins, Gestapo thugs and SS goons, treacherous old ladies and even more deadly young ones. This is another example of Mr. Benn's ability to bring fresh insight to what may well be the most written about period of history. Along with writing a great action thriller, he has managed to infuse it with historical events within Switzerland that are seldom talked about. Things such as how so many of the "neutral" were actually rabid pro-Nazi sympathizers. So much so that they aided the Nazis in laundering stolen fortunes within the secrecy of their banks. So many of the wealthy turned a blind eye to the final solution even as they assisted in a multitude of ways. More than just an action story, this is both a murder mystery and a revelation of a history most of us know little about. You can't go wrong with a Billy Boyle adventure tale. Now I find myself having to read more of them.