Mitch Silver, In Secret Service

In Secret Service

Mitch Silver

Touchstone, May 2007, $25.00

ISBN: 1416537945

When Yale University Professor Amy Greenberg learns of the safety deposit box her late grandfather leased, she travels to Dublin to obtain the contents. Inside is an alleged memoir manuscript written by James Bond author Ian Fleming.

However, the book, apparently written in 1964, is not a spy novel, has never been published and allegedly contains a terrible secret that the late renowned author said he had kept since WWII. Fleming insists that King Edward VIII, after abdicating the throne, had a relationship with Adolph Hitler that jeopardized Great Britain. As a stunned Amy affirms much of the contentions through other documents, she wonders what to do with the Fleming expos . However, the choice may not be hers as adversaries, who have killed at least one famous royal and probably others, are willing to murder her and her boyfriend to gain possession of the nonfiction pages.

IN SECRET SERVICE will fascinate readers with the question whether Mitch Silver has written a historical fictional account of real occurrences because the key players in Fleming's "memoir" including him are genuine persona and so are the prime events. The storyline is fast-paced, especially when the plot focuses on the past while the present seems more typical of a cat and mouse drama. Fans will enjoy this fine thriller that connects major twentieth century Englishmen and women even when Mitch Silver's connecting of famous incidents seems far-fetched rather than a historical slam dunk tenet.

Harriet Klausner