Six Graves to Munich,
Mario Puzo
Synopsis
A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Godfather.
Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him.
Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors committed atrocity upon atrocity. But not before they did the same to his wife-and unborn son. He’s lived with the horror of that experience for ten years.
Now, Michael Rogan has returned to Europe to find the men who tortured him. And he’s going to make sure that they never have to live with the horror as he did…
They will die with it.
Richard says
“Six Graves to Munich” is a novel written by an author in development, Mario Puzo before his next novel, The Godfather.
Night and day, rough around the edges vs refined and polished. Readers familiar with The Godfather will find this precursor interesting because it displays an author honing his craft. The story has interest, the plot acceptable, the writing style not so much. The writing is rough around the edges and any reader who also dabbles as an author will see.
However, the story is a good one. It even has some suspenseful moments. But the writing is not polished and refined. Many readers will agree some parts of the narrative is bruque and unrefined, needing revision and rewriting.
A reader almost gets the feeling the story is intended to be a short story. It would work better as such though it still would need provisioning.
A worthwhile read if one wants to make comparisons of Puzo, “before and after.” Not much more to get out of this book.
