Title: The Swiss Courier: A Novel
Author: Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey
Genre: Historical Christian fiction
Published: 2009
Number of Pages: 324
Recommended for: 13+
Summary: (Official) It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland.
Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany. When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities. But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way?
Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany. When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities. But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way?
Content Review
Sexual content: It is implied a man and woman have sex, nothing explicit. It is said some Jews have been bribing Germans with sex not to be turned over to the Gestapo. A circumcised man was advised never to show his privates to anyone after the Fürher came to power.
Profanity: None.
Violence: The book opens with a shooting, and there is other multiple shootings/attacks. A couple purposely drowns themselves to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. A prisoner is brutally beaten, and has had one of his fingernails pulled out. A story of the fourteenth century Black Death is told, how 600 Jewish men, women, and children were burned alive in a barn.
Drug content: Drinking, and cigarettes are mentioned.
My opinion: So, I love Tricia Goyer's From Dust and Ashes and Night Song. Dawn of a Thousand Nights and Chasing Mona Lisa (Swiss Courier's sequel) were very good as well.
I didn't like this for mainly two reasons.
1. I couldn't read half of it, because it was in untranslated German. I know basic German, (yes, no, one, two, three, Mrs., Mr., Miss., Jew, Germany, etc) but there were sentences or small phrases/words that I had no clue what they meant, and the non-translations occurred often enough for me to add that here.
2. I also didn't like how it bounced from one character to another, without rhyme or reason. I mean, NOTHING like From Dust and Ashes, which mainly has 3 POVs, and each which fit together. Here, there's like too many to list; Gabi, Kassler, Baumann, Ernst Müeller, Engel, Dulles, Willy Müeller, being a few of the characters in which the story features their view.
The last chapter (and epilogue) were heart-pounding and something out of an action movie, I LOVED IT!
I would recommend this book.
I didn't like this for mainly two reasons.
1. I couldn't read half of it, because it was in untranslated German. I know basic German, (yes, no, one, two, three, Mrs., Mr., Miss., Jew, Germany, etc) but there were sentences or small phrases/words that I had no clue what they meant, and the non-translations occurred often enough for me to add that here.
2. I also didn't like how it bounced from one character to another, without rhyme or reason. I mean, NOTHING like From Dust and Ashes, which mainly has 3 POVs, and each which fit together. Here, there's like too many to list; Gabi, Kassler, Baumann, Ernst Müeller, Engel, Dulles, Willy Müeller, being a few of the characters in which the story features their view.
The last chapter (and epilogue) were heart-pounding and something out of an action movie, I LOVED IT!
I would recommend this book.
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