Operation Napoleon by A. Indridason
Near the end of World War 2, a plane with an American pilot and German military passengers crashes into a glacier in Iceland during a storm. The plane is swallowed up by the glacier and its whereabouts remain a mystery for decades. Its reappearance sets off a chain reaction of lies, cover-ups, and deaths as government officials try to hide the secret behind the flight.
The heroine of the story is Kristin, an Icelandic lawyer, whose brother Elias stumbles upon the plane recovery site. He disappears and soon Kristin finds her own life in danger as she tries to find out what happened to her brother and what was going on on that glacier.
Operation Napoleon is quite the page turner. I finished the whole book in one day. And Kristin is a feisty heroine--though how she manages to elude/escape the bad guys (and solve the mystery)with no weapons and no special training kind of strains credulity. But the Iceland setting is unique and it's a good story with an interesting mystery. My one quibble is the anti-American sentiment so prevalent throughout the book. I've noticed this is becoming a recurring theme with a lot of European authors--one which some of us don't appreciate.
Indridason is also the author of the Inspector Erlandur series. Those books are more character driven while Operation Napoleon is more plot driven.
The heroine of the story is Kristin, an Icelandic lawyer, whose brother Elias stumbles upon the plane recovery site. He disappears and soon Kristin finds her own life in danger as she tries to find out what happened to her brother and what was going on on that glacier.
Operation Napoleon is quite the page turner. I finished the whole book in one day. And Kristin is a feisty heroine--though how she manages to elude/escape the bad guys (and solve the mystery)with no weapons and no special training kind of strains credulity. But the Iceland setting is unique and it's a good story with an interesting mystery. My one quibble is the anti-American sentiment so prevalent throughout the book. I've noticed this is becoming a recurring theme with a lot of European authors--one which some of us don't appreciate.
Indridason is also the author of the Inspector Erlandur series. Those books are more character driven while Operation Napoleon is more plot driven.
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