Captains Island: 1942 . . . For the sleepy little fishing village in Casco Bay, war was just a distant rumbling. Life went on pretty much as usual while their giant sixteen-inch guns guarded the convoys leaving Portland, Maine. Only Tom Heiden, a young American security officer, was uneasy-they were vulnerable to attack. Nobody seemed ready to listen . . . and then a stranger named Ryker showed up. But John Ryker-who seemed as safe as the man next door-was a killer, an American-born mercenary and Germany's most valued ...
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Captains Island: 1942 . . . For the sleepy little fishing village in Casco Bay, war was just a distant rumbling. Life went on pretty much as usual while their giant sixteen-inch guns guarded the convoys leaving Portland, Maine. Only Tom Heiden, a young American security officer, was uneasy-they were vulnerable to attack. Nobody seemed ready to listen . . . and then a stranger named Ryker showed up. But John Ryker-who seemed as safe as the man next door-was a killer, an American-born mercenary and Germany's most valued secret agent. He had served the Reich faithfully and well behind enemy lines in France, Poland, Norway. This time the assignment was different: to return to the place of his birth as the leader of a Nazi commando team. Their mission: capture an army base off the coast of Maine! This time Ryker would strike the blow that would destroy his native land. . . The Casco Deception. // "If you liked The Eagle Has Landed or The Eye of the Needle, you'll love The Casco Deception!" -Pittsburgh Press // "The tension never flags." -Washington Post // A "taut thriller"! -Atlanta Journal-Constitution // Bob Reiss is a bestselling New York based author and journalist, a former Chicago Tribune reporter and former correspondent for Outside magazine. His work has also appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian, Parade, Rolling Stone, and other national publications.
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This book came highly recommended to me by a friend as being a very good novel about German spies and saboteurs working in the Casco Bay islands off Portland, Maine in World War ll. I discovered that the novel has too many errors (both historical and the area of Portland, Maine) to make the book a meaningful read for me. The O.S.S. (precursor to the C.I.A.) operated overseas, while the F.B.I. provided domestic security; he has has no knowledge of scuba (which was invented by the Italians in WW ll); he has no knowledge of naval air stations in New England; the 1903 Springfield was the military issued rifle to American forces, not the Enfield; and Bath Iron Works operated, during WW ll, in Bath, Maine. There are just too many errors to list. I expect an historical novel to be accurate with its facts which is what makes a good read: what if? With this many errors, I could not enjoy the novel; I can not even recommend it to anyone. If I could, I would rate this novel a TURKEY. If only the author had done research about WW ll and the surrounding area of Portland, Maine during this period. He would have turned 'what if?' into a very enjoyable read. The novel reminds me of the classic 'what if?' Jack Higgins thriller 'The Eagle Has Landed,' which had better research. Semper Fi
