From Publishers Weekly Fact and fiction create a winning combination in former deputy national security advisor Aaron's ( Agent of Influence ) romanticized account of real-life spy Elizabeth Thorpe Pack, the young American wife of stodgy British diplomat Arthur Pack, during the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of WW II. Elizabeth's honeymoon announcement that they're going to have a baby sooner than propriety dictates makes Arthur fear for his career. After using Elizabeth's beauty and social status to meet Vita Sackville-West, Winston Churchill and others above his station, he puts their newborn son up for adoption and takes Elizabeth to Spain, where she behaves "like a mad debutante" and falls for Antonio Zaragoza. In the summer of 1936, she catches the eye of the SIS by rescuing the besieged British embassy in San Sebastian. Flying into Madrid during the bombing, she locates Zaragoza and frees 18 men from a Valencia prison. When Arthur is later posted to Warsaw, the British recruit Elizabeth to steal Polish copies of the Enigma, the Nazi encoding device. Relishing her work, Elizabeth pursues handsome intelligence officer Count Michael Lubienski and uncovers Poland's complicity in Hitler's acquisition of Czechoslovakia. Then Churchill asks her to engage in yet another risky, heroic act of espionage, which brings the book to a riveting denouement. In Aaron's capable hands, Elizabeth is an irresistible heroine and her story is the stuff of highest adventure. BOMC alternate; major ad/promo; optioned by Republic Pictures for a TV miniseries. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Aaron ( State Scarlet , LJ 3/15/87; Agent of Influence , Putnam, 1989) has written a fictional account of the adventures of World War II spy Elizabeth Pack (code name: Cynthia). Crossing by Night chronicles Cynthia's brave and heroic deeds in 1930s Europe, climaxing in her plot to smuggle the famed Enigma coding device out of Hitler's Germany. At great personal risk, Pack "left the comfortable world of a Washington debutante and diplomat's wife to lead the life of a spy." Real-life characters include her passionless husband, Arthur Pack; the romantic Count Michael Lubienski; and spymaster William Stephenson. While entertaining and fast-paced, this work presents a rather simplified view of the acquisition of Enigma by the British SIS. Neither the plot nor the characters are deeply developed or explored. Nevertheless, this action-packed, engaging novel will appeal to fans of romantic historical fiction and World War II adventure yarns. Recommended for larger collections. BOMC alternate; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/93.- Stacie Browne Chandler, Plymouth P.L., Mass.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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如果用一种颜色来形容这本书给我的感觉,那绝对是深沉的靛青色,带着午夜时分特有的寒意和一种近乎宗教性的肃穆感。故事的核心矛盾并非简单的善恶对立,而是一种关于“忠诚与背叛”的永恒困境,它将人性置于烤炉之上,逼迫我们去看清,在绝对的生存压力面前,我们究竟能捍卫多少自我。作者对环境的描写带有强烈的感官冲击力,你仿佛能感受到那种刺骨的寒风如何穿透单薄的外衣,直达骨髓,这不仅仅是环境描写,更是对人物内心世界的一种映射。我尤其欣赏它对群体心理的刻画,在一个封闭或受压抑的社群中,恐惧是如何像瘟疫一样蔓延,理智是如何被群体的歇斯底里所吞噬。读毕后,我久久无法平静,脑海中回荡的不是具体的情节,而是那种挥之不去的、关于集体无意识的沉重阴影。
评分这是一部真正意义上的“慢热型”作品,它不会用爆炸性的开场来吸引眼球,它的魅力是潜移默化的,如同地下的水流,在你毫无察觉时,就已经渗透了整片土壤。作者的叙事视角非常克制,他似乎站在一个稍远的、近乎冷漠的观察者角度,记录着一切的发生,但正是这种克制,反而让情感的爆发更具穿透力。书中人物的对话极少使用修饰语,直截了当,如同手术刀般精准地切入主题,这种风格使得故事的张力始终保持在一个高频振动状态。它探讨的“代价”是如此的真实和沉重,每一次小小的胜利背后,都隐藏着一个巨大的、不可逆转的牺牲。这本书不是用来消遣的,它更像是某种晦涩的哲学论著,包裹在精巧的小说外壳之下,它要求读者进行深度的智力投入,但回报的,是关于存在本质的几句低语,那种领悟是安静而深刻的。
评分老实说,这本书的阅读门槛相当高,它要求读者投入大量的注意力去追踪那些看似漫不经心的细节,但一旦你进入了作者构建的那个独特的时空场域,那种沉浸感是无与伦比的。它探讨的主题非常宏大——关于身份的消解、历史如何幽灵般地纠缠着当下——但作者却通过非常微小、日常的物件和行为来锚定这一切的重量。比如,一支生锈的钥匙,或是一段反复哼唱的童谣,在书中被赋予了超越其物理形态的象征意义。我必须承认,有那么几次,我需要退回来重读一整章,不是因为没看懂情节,而是因为错过了作者埋下的那种微妙的情绪伏笔。这本书的美感在于它的“留白”,它从不急于给你答案,而是把构建意义的工作交给了读者。这使得每一次重读都会有新的发现,就像在解读一幅古老的、信息量巨大的壁画,需要时间去辨认那些被岁月侵蚀的符号。
评分这本小说的叙事节奏简直就像一列失控的蒸汽火车,从第一页开始就裹挟着一股强烈的、近乎令人窒息的紧迫感向前狂飙。作者对于场景氛围的营造达到了令人惊叹的细腻程度,你几乎能闻到空气中弥漫的尘土味和某种难以言喻的金属锈蚀气息。故事的主线虽然清晰,但它巧妙地穿插了大量错综复杂的人物内心挣扎和历史的回响,使得每一个转折都显得沉重而充满宿命感。阅读过程中,我多次停下来,不是为了喝水,而是为了平复一下被那种持续的悬念和潜在的危险所带来的心跳加速。书中对人性的描绘尤其深刻,那些在极端压力下做出的选择,那些藏在光鲜外表下的道德瑕疵,都被剥开来看得一清二楚。它不是那种让你读完后感到轻松愉快的作品,更像是一场对精神耐力的残酷考验,但这种考验的价值在于,它迫使你直面人性的幽暗与光芒的脆弱,读完后,世界观似乎也被轻轻地拧转了一个角度,留下的回味悠长而复杂,像陈年的威士忌,初尝辛辣,后劲十足。
评分笔触之优雅与内容之冷峻形成了极具张力的对比,这是一部将精致的文学语言与粗粝的现实主题完美融合的杰作。作者的遣词造句考究到每一个词语的音韵,仿佛在进行一场精心编排的语言舞蹈,但舞蹈的背景却是冰冷荒凉的废墟和难以磨灭的创伤。我特别欣赏作者处理“记忆”的方式,它不是一个线性的回顾,而是一种碎片化的、闪烁不定的光影,每次出现都带着新的解读和更深的刺痛。角色之间的对话更是教科书级别的示范,表面上平淡无奇,实则暗流汹涌,每一个停顿、每一个未尽之言都比直接的控诉更有力量。读到后半段,我开始为书中一些人物的命运感到深深的无力,那种宿命论的重量几乎要将书页压弯。它挑战了传统叙事结构,不断地在时间线上跳跃、回溯,但最终,所有散落的线索都汇集成一张密不透风的、关于“失去”的宏大图景。
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