To the Eagle's Nest

by Joseph DiMona

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688036538
• ISBN13: 9780688036539
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A mad and brilliant book of enormous energy.

To the Eagles Nest is a stunningly original story that ripples with imagination and intrigue. This is a masterful book divided into disparate parts, alternately a cooler than cool "Matt Helm" or "Tony Rome" story mixed with a scrupulous examination of modern day Germany. The book succeeds on both levels. To the Eagles Nest reads in a wonderfully cinematic way. Each action scene mounts on the previous one. The author, Joe DiMona was noted for wry observations and beautifully drawn characters. In the Eagles Nest he hits the mark time and time again. The self-absorbed American movie stars in Germany to make a movie about Hitler. The disenfranchised German military hero. The Justice Department agent drawn into an ancient conflict that leads him around the world. And, the reborn Eagles, modern Germany's stealthy new threat. All bold and fascinating characters caught up in an apocalyptic plot. A tense and thrilling book from start to finish

"Infamy On Trial, through the prism of Vanity Fair"

"To the Eagles' Nest" is a complex and compelling thriller by the late Joe DiMona, a superbly gifted author who anticpated the rise of worldwide anti-semitism, hate groups and the ascension of a Clinton-like body politic in this 1980 'tour de force'. Propelled by a manic energy and written in a cinematic style, the book is a searing look at Communisms last days, an elegy for Hollywood's lost glamour and a dire warning about telegenic "new" world leaders. A group of American superstars are in Germany to do a film, the "Secret Life of Adolf Hitler". They are kidnapped by a terrorist organization who make, a series of increasingly bizzare demands. It is left to American Jutice department agent George Williams (a recurring character in DiMona's books) to battle the intercine forces in Germany to save the Americans. Williams unknowingly steps into the middle of ancient hatreds and desperate cold war gambits, on a search that takes him around the world trying to rescue the actors. DiMona takes obvious pleasure in the actors, imbuing them with great elegance and "star power". He couples his "movie stars" with trenchant politcal observations, and one of the most striking examinations of the culture of the "agent provacateur", those who create chaos and then get themselves elected as the party to end the chaos. It is a stirring book, populated with Nazis, Communists and con men, all close to the bone, and starkly real. The book is an amalgamation of Elie Weisel and Dominick Dunne. A fittingly large scale and multi-leveled book from one of the finest American authors the latter half of this century.