Deadly Secret of the Lusitania eBook Ivan Light
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In 1915, a German U-Boat sank the British passenger liner Lusitania. Many Americans, including women and children, were among the 1,200 dead, so the crime caused a storm of protest in America, and helped plunge the U.S. into World War I. In this gripping novel, an insurance investigator and his fiancée help a murdered longshoreman's widow who s been unjustly denied her husband's life insurance. Finding themselves in possession of documents detailing the Lusitania's secret cargo, the couple are targeted by German and British spies, Irish republicans, a rogue socialist, and the newly-formed FBI, all wanting to use the suppressed material for their own purposes.
Deadly Secret of the Lusitania eBook Ivan Light
This historical novel operates at three levels. The plot orbits around a world-shaking historical fact, the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania in 1915 by a German submarine. One torpedo sunk the liner in a matter of minutes, possibly because its cargo contained a lethal amount of the explosive, cordite. If this were true, and it became well known to the American public, possibly there would have been much more resistance to the US entering the war in 1917 on the side of the British and French.Taking that combination of fact and conjecture, Ivan Light works backwards toward a fiction hypothetical of "what if someone knew about the cargo beforehand?" The author builds a taut plot around this premise by working on who would want to know and who would want to suppress that knowledge.
Besides working through the suspense, the great pleasure of this narrative is its walk through the social and commercial culture on New York of 1915. The novel shows great research that makes daily life vivid to the reader.
I personally enjoyed the portrayal of the Socialist Party in the book and its commitment to staying out of the war. When I was a small child I was reading a history of World War II and my grandfather saw this. He was a Swedish immigrant and had been a strong supporter of Eugene Debs and the Socialist Party until 1932 when he voted for Roosevelt. His comment to me, dismissive of the two world wars, was "Every twenty years the New York bankers want to go fight the Kaiser." The words have grown with me over the decades. If you want to know where that sensibility came from, this book gives some insight.
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Deadly Secret of the Lusitania eBook Ivan Light Reviews
I enjoyed this book. It centers on a number of themes, the main one relating to the behavior of insurance companies in insuring (pardon the pun) that payouts on policies are not made. Another interesting theme has to do with whether or not a German U-boat attack alone would have sunk the ship given that there was pressure on the US to join the WWI. Another theme is a love story that works to unite the other two themes.
Couldn't put it down. While I enjoyed Larson's Dead Wake also about the Lusitania, I found Dead Secrets of the Lusitania much easier and overall more enjoyable. Combines well drawn characters, historical events, and great New York background into a rapid paced suspense thriller. Offers a well studied exploration of whether the Lusitania was in fact carrying a large shipment of cordite (a high explosive used to to propel artillery ordinance) despite claiming only to have non military cargo. Lots of bad guys and individuals with complex motivations as well as a trial that would do Erle Stanley Gardener proud. A quick and satisfying read.
The author cleverly uses his fictional characters to tell us a well-researched story about the Lusitania and its sinking in 1915 shortly before the U. S. entered the First World War. Besides explaining the politics surrounding the Lusitania and the questions about whether its cargo included munitions, which would have made the German attack look justified, the author also gives a convincing picture of life for working people in New York City at the time. The book is well written and keeps one reading.
Corruption. Corruption runs through this narrative with the regularity and inevitability of breathing itself. Light is at home with corruption. He looks at if from one angle, changes focus and highlights another. He can laugh at corruption, revel in its colors and dark humor. Milk it for all it’s worth. All the while remaining a decent and honest narrator, one who himself, though a connoisseur, is not engulfed in it himself. Who appears to take it as it comes, its inevitability. It is life. Yet the reader, if he choses to, can join with the author and stand above it all. But, for sure, can never deny its existence. This book won’t let you to.
There is humor as well as raw edges in this book, a love of slang and its colorful aspects. Street talk comes framed in gilt. And his knowledge of the street is authoritative and convincing. The writing is sharp and clean, offering an occasional gem of a sentence. Such as “Truth is more unpopular in wartime than a bastard at the family reunion.”
If you enjoy intelligent mysteries realistically bound together then take advantage of this space and order yourself a copy.
This historical novel operates at three levels. The plot orbits around a world-shaking historical fact, the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania in 1915 by a German submarine. One torpedo sunk the liner in a matter of minutes, possibly because its cargo contained a lethal amount of the explosive, cordite. If this were true, and it became well known to the American public, possibly there would have been much more resistance to the US entering the war in 1917 on the side of the British and French.
Taking that combination of fact and conjecture, Ivan Light works backwards toward a fiction hypothetical of "what if someone knew about the cargo beforehand?" The author builds a taut plot around this premise by working on who would want to know and who would want to suppress that knowledge.
Besides working through the suspense, the great pleasure of this narrative is its walk through the social and commercial culture on New York of 1915. The novel shows great research that makes daily life vivid to the reader.
I personally enjoyed the portrayal of the Socialist Party in the book and its commitment to staying out of the war. When I was a small child I was reading a history of World War II and my grandfather saw this. He was a Swedish immigrant and had been a strong supporter of Eugene Debs and the Socialist Party until 1932 when he voted for Roosevelt. His comment to me, dismissive of the two world wars, was "Every twenty years the New York bankers want to go fight the Kaiser." The words have grown with me over the decades. If you want to know where that sensibility came from, this book gives some insight.
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