ignacio padilla's shadow without a name
men taking on new identities, men training other men to be the doubles of high-powered nazis, men being obsessed with chess, men trying to decode mysterious manuscripts . . . and yet, this book had no suspense or tension and barely held my interest. maybe it's a bad translation, but none of these characters had any personality and they hardly had any motivation either. plus, i generally feel that using nazis in a story is a cheap bid at heightening the drama, and that didn't even work here. luckily this book was less than 200 pages so i didn't waste too much time on it.
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