THE LAND GOD MADE IN ANGER- JOHN GORDON DAVIS

Book: Paperback. 658 pages. Poor condition but good reading copy. 1990 edition.

James McQuade, captain and part owner of a trawler based in Walvis Bay, Namibia, worries about the future of the country, the safety of his investment, and the onset of middle age. When he hears the story of two German officers who at the end of World War II escaped from a sinking U-boat just up the coast, he sets out to locate the wreck and any valuables aboard. Concluding that one of the survivors was a high-level Nazi who is still alive somewhere in South Africa, McQuade finds his efforts have attracted the unwelcome attention of the Mossad, the local police, and an organization of South African right-wing extremists who are nurturing the Nazi seed for the arrival of the Fourth Reich. Unfortunately, the intricate plot is spoiled by too much background data, and a potentially spellbinding thriller becomes bogged down in a mass of documentary detail.
- John North, NorCom Enterprises, Toronto