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Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych) by Ian Tregillis (view source)
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|summary=A war action thriller dipped in a combative fantasy. If I didn't know better I'd think that Ian Tregillis was the love child of Alistair Maclean, [[The Boys from From Brazil by Ira Levin|Ira Levin]], Stephen Baxter and [[:Category:Iain Irvine|Iain Irvine]] and the cover blurb ''An unnatural power, An unstoppable force'' would appear to be a comment on his career.
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It's 1939 and Lt Commander Raybould 'Pip' Marsh of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service travels to Portugal to smuggle out Krasnopolsky, a fascist with a secret. However things don't go to plan. Krasnopolsky nerves are justified as, in the time it takes to order drinks, he spontaneously combusts. Marsh is too late to extinguish him but manages to retrieve Krasnopolsky's case to take back home. He finds the surprises keep on coming: it contains film footage of people becoming 'insubstantial' whilst walking through walls, others absorbing bullets and some bursting into flames with no apparent side-effects (unlike poor Mr Krasnopolsky). Marsh realises the Nazis' unconventional weapons need an unconventional response and so calls on Lord William Beauclerk who happens to be a warlock. Operation Milkweed is on so let other-worldly battle commence.
A special thank you to Orbit for sending us a copy of this book for review.
If you've enjoyed this destined classic and would like to read a current classic 'what if?' World War II thriller, we suggest [[The Boys from From Brazil by Ira Levin|Ira Levin]].
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