![]() ![]() ![]() The central character is one Peter Miller, a West German freelance journalist aged twenty-nine, who is making a good if precarious living writing features for the new picture magazines. This has some significance in the larger geo-politics of the novel. The novel opens in Germany in 1963 on the eve of President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas. I think it is probably fair to say that nothing quite like it in the thriller genre had previously been done – certainly nothing that drew quite so audaciously on such weighty material as the Holocaust, the collapse of the Third Reich, and the post-war division and de-Nazification of Germany. When The Guardian reviewed Frederick Forsyth’s The Odessa File on its original publication in 1972 it said that in Forsyth’s hands the ‘documentary thriller’ had assumed its most sophisticated form. Posted on Rereading Frederick Forsyth’s The Odessa File ![]()
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