This is a page turner. Two parallel stories. Characters are well developed and interesting. The action is nonstop. The ending sets up for another. book. Hope it is soon

I really liked The Odessa File, which I read a long time ago. Revenge of Odessa was a decent book, good cast of charactors(good/bad), interesting storyline/plot, but the story dragged along till the bullets started to fly. Some good action got the story ramped up and then it died a sudden death at the end. Too many questions were left unanswered and you'll need to wait for the follow up, which I might possibly read.
Thanks to G. P. Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for the ARC of the novel.

This was a strong sequel in the Odessa series, it had that feel that I was looking for and enjoyed how it improved on the previous entry. The characters were everything that I was looking for and was invested in what was going on and was hooked from the first page. I enjoyed the way Frederick Forsyth & Tony Kent writes a strong story and thought the character development worked in this story and had that thriller concept that I wanted.

Revenge of Odessa is a rock-solid winner. The late Frederick Forsyth and accomplished British thriller writer Tony Kent have partnered to give us a contemporary follow-up to the best selling The Odessa File. Frederick Forsyth has been one of my favorite authors since the publication of the classic thriller The Day of the Jackel. Forsyth followed with The Odessa File in 1972. Fifty plus years later Revenge of Odessa skips a generation of the Miller family going from investigative reporter Peter Miller searching out illegal post-Nazi activity following Germany’s WWII failure to grandson podcaster/journalist Georg Miller. Why? Georg’s parents were killed in a car accident leaving grandfather Peter to raise him. Or was it an accident?

Forsyth’s trademark intricate plotting brings alive two seemingly unrelated catastrophic events in Washington DC and Stuttgart, Germany, into a compelling page-turner. The death of a U.S. senator in DC is accepted as accidental. A terrorist attack during a German soccer match sends Georg to Stuttgart to interview victims and witnesses in the city’s main trauma hospital. A chance encounter with a patient in the memory care wing rattles Georg to his core. A follow-up encounter with the patient’s wife leads to Georg, Peter, and a few trusted friends to uncover a geopolitical plot by the white supremist Odessa group attempting to destabilize German and American governments.

The action and tension ratchet up as police and federal police set out to arrest Georg for murder. He is also being hunted by neo-Nazis who want to eliminate him. Georg’s grandfather enlists the help of an long-time British SAS friend to help Georg navigate through this geopolitical plot from a rebuilt Odessa organization. Years of planning has inserted key members into the highest positions in government and industry. Georg doesn’t know who to trust as he comes across sleeper agents in government, law enforcement, and industry, white supremists and antisemites committed to restoring the Reich to its proper place in Germany and globally. Georg’s investigation uncovers a major plot Odessa has planned to wipe out all of Germany’s high ranking politicians. A small group of mercenaries led by Peter’s ex-SAS friend are called upon to stop the planned massive terrorist attack. As usual with a Forsyth novel I kept turning the pages right to the completely unsettling ending. Forsyth’s outstanding final work reminds us of what a major contributor he has been to thriller fans by his suspenseful storytelling.

Thanks to G. P. Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this outstanding publication.

What would you do if you found out that your parent's death wasn't the accident you thought it was? Georg is successful podcaster and writer who is at a hospital working on a story when an old man sees him and freaks out. The old man claims to have killed him years ago. The man is confusing Georg for his dad. Shocked by this outburst, Georg turns to is grandfather Peter Miller (who is the protagonist of the original book in the Odessa series) to help figure out what is going on and especially about the shady organization the Odessa the old man claimed to have worked for.

It has been about a decade since I read the first book and about four since the Odessa Files were published. There was something about it that being a sequel, even with a new main character, that made me feel like I was missing important information, possibly from the first book. I really liked the first book. I feel like the drastic change in times and technology didn't have the same nuance to spy craft that the first book had.

I understand that Georg was thrown into his situation, but I also don't like when the main character sort of lucks into anything that goes his way. A lot didn't go his way, but luck and happenstance were largely on Georg's side in this book. This was true for a few characters.

I also understand that the Odessa is never really gone, which is the point of this book, but the door was widely left open for third book with not all the plot points being resolved (to be a vague about it as possible). I wish more of it was wrapped up.