Dark Invasion
Book description
Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum’s gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Dark Invasion as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s become an irritating cliché for dustjacket blurbs on nonfiction books to claim that the book in your hands “reads like a thriller”.
More often than not, I only have to read a couple of dozen pages before realising that the book in question merely reads like the raw material for a thriller. But Howard Blum has the rare, almost alchemical knack of transforming mountains of historical research into nonfiction that really does feel like the most exciting of thrillers.
You can see why so many of his books—Dark Invasion among them—have been optioned by movie producers.
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