Not badly written, but a bit all over the place. I liked the premise, it sounded interesting - an alternate history with the US under a fascist style government about to join forces with Nazi Germany in WW2. I found the ending a little lightweight after all the build up, and several little things niggled me throughout the story. Not sure I would bother reading anything else by the author. ( )

I really really wanted to like this book because Daniel Easterman is really one of my favorite escape-reading authors. I thought the premise was good, and I will admit that the book held me in suspense, at least through the first few chapters, but overall, I didn't like it very much.

Here's the premise:
The KKK in 1932 backs their candidate, Charles Lindbergh, who succeeds in the presidential election rather than FDR. Lindbergh, known for his Aryan views, allows the KKK a great deal of power, and as the story opens, we find that Jews are in concentration camps in the US. Facism abounds and old southern prejudices are taken to new heights against African-Americans. Lynchings are not only legal, but they are advertised spectator events. At stake is US involvement with Hitler, siding with the Nazis in an alliance against other Europeans in WWII.

Sounds good, yeah? And parts of it were. But on the flip side, Easterman made some silly historical mistakes (especially at the end!!), and soemtimes the writing was a bit soap-opera-ish. ( )