It wasn't perfect but I couldn't stop listening. I was ready for it to end when it did but I mostly loved the whole book.

I enjoyed the book but could have done with a little less detail in some of the more gruesome scenes. Should have known as his Mr. Slaughter was pretty dark too.

A bit gruesome for my tastes, not a bad story, but I did like the main character.

10/31/23: Starting this again.

It takes a pretty good writer to pull this off:
Write an espionage tale about a British spy who is in a race against time to determine what secret the Germans have in mind to thwart the Allied Invasion of Europe. Now throw in the fact that he's a werewolf without making the whole thing sound stupid.

Yeah, it sounds really stupid, and the front cover of my paperback does nothing to dispel that.
But it really works! Of course, it helps if you're the type of reader who can suspend disbelief and just sit back and enjoy the story.

For the most part, the novel goes back and forth from the espionage tail, er...tale, to Michael's childhood beginnings as a werewolf and growth into a man-beast.
I preferred his coming of age chapters to the espionage parts, but not by a whole lot: the whole novel was very entertaining. If I have one gripe, it's that I felt the story was a little long at 600 pages. I was more than ready for a wrap-up at around 500. And, well, there was a moment there when the villain, with our hero in his grasp, makes the cliched bone-headed move of totally spilling the beans of the big secret and how they're going to pull it all off, Mwahahaha!
Oh well, this is pulp, and it is all about fun, so it is what it is. Fun stuff, and I doubt anyone who would be interested in reading this would be expecting to take things in here too seriously. So there.

Incidentally, thanks, Robert, for including Canadians in the Normandy D-Day Invasion. Too many Americans forget that we were there, too.

Read this 20 years ago, during a short-lived period of interest in horror/fantasy. it was OK, being a sort of pulp fiction novel of a master spy/werewolf during WWII, fighting against the Nazi's. Wouldn't really recommend it to anyone though...there are far better ways to spend your time.

An interesting and intriguing take on the werewolf character. Like how the author bounced back and forth between time periods.

Dnf with 16 something or other hours to go.

It started off in el Alamein all very jolly exciting (I really thought it was) and now it's become hard work.

I'd have preferred Michael's origins to have remained a mystery, for me to wonder about. (Grass is always greener). His past has suddenly put the break on the WWII story that I'd been lead to believe the book was actually about.

In fairness I was beginning to lose interest before the origins bit got properly going, just from the level of detail over the get away. Had it just been that though (highly detailed bits), I'd have hung on. But the origin story slapped in just when you'd expect things to get going with the main mission. Yeah, no.

I expect it's fine, just not my cuppa.

NEXT!