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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The Wolf's Hour - Robert R. McCammon</h1>
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2019-02-16
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/werewolves/">#werewolves</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/robert-r-mccammon/">#robert r mccammon</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-1989/">#published:1989</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11551.The_Wolf_s_Hour">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Michael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to
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transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the
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Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service
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when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army
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asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied Paris. A mysterious
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German plan called the Iron Fist threatens the D-Day invasion, and the Nazi in
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charge is the spy who betrayed Michael’s lover. The werewolf goes to France for
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king and country, hoping for a chance at bloody vengeance.</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>This is truly a weird book.</p>
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<p>So you take the idea of mythical creatures like werewolfs. And you take great
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events in history, like World War II. And then you mix both.</p>
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<p>In one hand, the book is almost silly in its premise. And, as if it was a 60s
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spy movie, it makes the hero always get the girl -- which is narrated almost as
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a horny teenage vision of what sex could be.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, there is a bunch of what seems real information: Locations,
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dates, aircrafts, guns you name it. It's almost as the author really did some
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research on geography and history about WWII events.</p>
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<p>This dichotomy permeates the book in every place. The very beginning of the
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book reminded of a site that gathered the most absurd adverbs: "like a ghost in
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the night" and the like. So, at the very start, it feels like it is a bad book,
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but then you get what seems like real events happening (with a touch of what
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was done in Assassin's Creed series of games) and then it seems like a real
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book. And then you get the horny parts and it goes back to silly.</p>
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