Tin Sky (Martin Bora), by Ben Pastor
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FOURTH IN THE MARTIN BORA SERIES.SPELLBINDING MULTI-LAYERED CRIME NOVEL SET IN UKRAINE AS THE GERMANS REGROUP AFTER THE DISASTER OF STALINGRAD.FOR FANS OF PHILLIP KERR (BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES), ALAN FURST (SPIES OF THE BALKANS).THE HERO, MAJOR MARTIN BORA, IS AN ARISTOCRATIC GERMAN OFFICER OF THE ILK OF CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, TORN BETWEEN HIS DUTY AS AN OFFICER AND HIS INTEGRITY AS A HUMAN BEING.Ukraine, 1943. Having barely escaped the inferno of Stalingrad, Major Martin Bora is serving on the Russian front as a German counterintelligence officer. Weariness, disillusionment, and battle fatigue are a soldier’s daily fare, yet Bora seems to be one of the few whose sanity is not marred by the horrors of war.As the Wehrmacht prepare for the Kursk counter-offensive, a Russian general defects aboard a T-34, the most advanced tank of the war. Soon he and another general, this one previously captured, are found dead in their cells. Everything appears to exclude the likelihood of foul play, but Bora begins an investigation, in a stubborn attempt to solve a mystery that will come much too close to home.
Tin Sky (Martin Bora), by Ben Pastor- Amazon Sales Rank: #231196 in Books
- Brand: Pastor, Ben
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x 1.75" w x 5.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 410 pages
Review “Ben Pastor’s novels featuring a Wehrmacht major are turning into one of the most appealing series in modern crime fiction, combining intriguing plots and characters who defy easy interpretation. This fine novel is packed with tense moments and moral ambiguity”. Sunday Times-London"STARRED REVIEW Publishers Weekly W: Set in the spring of 1943, Pastor’s excellent fourth mystery featuring Maj. Martin Bora (after 2014’s Dark Song of Blood) takes the German army counterintelligence officer to Ukraine. In Krasny Yar, a place shunned by the locals, someone has been savagely killing peasants for no apparent reason. Bora has little time to investigate before a higher-profile case claims his attention. Gen. Ghenrikh “Khan” Tibyetsky, a tank corps commander with access to the highest level of Soviet military planning, has offered to defect to the Germans. Khan’s information could be crucial to the battle looming in the Kursk salient. Bora handles Khan’s surrender, but the Gestapo later takes control of the prisoner. When Khan dies in Gestapo custody, an apparent poisoning victim, no one besides Bora, a decent man, seems interested in solving the crime, which may be linked to the murders at Krasny Yar. Pastor effectively melds a well-constructed whodunit with a grim portrayal of the Eastern front. (May 2015)’ PW"Bora is a brilliantly developed character, and Pastor’s devastated Ukraine is richly atmospheric." Booklist
About the Author Ben Pastor: Ben Pastor, born in Italy, lived for thirty years in the United States, working as a university professor in Vermont, and is now back in her home country. She is the author of other novels including The Water Thief and The Fire Waker (set in Roman times and published to high acclaim in the US by St. Martin’s Press), and is considered one of the most talented writers in the field of historical fiction. In 2008 she won the prestigious Premio Zaragoza for best historical fiction. She writes in English.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Superb historical fiction and character study By Elizabeth McBrearty I must confess I was so eager to read this book I ordered a paperback copy from Amazon UK last year, so I finished it before it even went on sale here in the States. Nor was I disappointed. The latest book in this series more than fulfills the promise of the previous volumes in its close attention to historical reality and its depth of characterization. The series focuses on the career of Martin Bora, a German aristocrat and professional soldier during World War II. The fact that these stories are written from a fresh and different point of view is what originally attracted me to them. They are historical mysteries, but also engrossing historical fiction, the author having paid strict attention to accuracy in her use of historical data. The author manages to immerse reader in the nitty-gritty of experiencing Martin Bora's world: the dusty, rutted roads of 1943 Ukraine which turn into bogs miring down military equipment as soon as it rains, the seeming endlessness of its plains which makes men feel like insects, the deadly menace of an isolated patch of woodland, the constant searching for signs of the enemy and even the constant battle with his own bureaucracy in order to keep his unit supplied.Beyond this though, we experience Martin Bora's inner world. He is intelligent, well educated, cultured, deeply in love with his wife and also a devout Catholic. The reader discovers these things not because the author simply states them, but because we are privy to his thoughts and emotions. The first book in the series, "Lumen," shows us Bora as young captain flushed with elation at German's sweep through Poland, but also shows us his growing dismay and disillusionment as he comes across evidence of atrocities committed by the SS against both Jews and Poles. As the series progresses we see him straining to retain his sense of humanity and of right and wrong as his war experiences grind away at them. It is in Poland that Bora rediscovers his faith and the strength it gives him to resist the Nazis. He keeps a diary in which he records what happens and how he thinks and feels about it, but in which he also records what he witnesses of the Nazis' depredations. He has gone out of his way to rescue his old teacher, a Jew, from the clutches if the SS. In this newest volume we see his open challenges to the power of the SS in Russia. Bora has filed charges against the SS with the German War Crimes Commission even though he has been threatened by them. He has also become part of the military conspiracy against Hitler. And his enemies recognize him for what he is: the Gestapo has already opened a file on him as being politically unreliable, and so far only his family connections and sterling war record have saved him. Bora knows it is only a matter of time until he makes a fatal mistake. When, both he and the reader wonder, when will his enemies pounce?How does the author tie all this in with the mystery angle of her novels? Bora strives to retain his humanity, and this and his sense of being answerable to God, it seems to me, are what motivate him. He knows he cannot make a difference in the broad flow of events, but if he can effect the fate of one individual, he scores a small victory nonetheless. Documenting atrocities, rescuing one person or finding out the truth about the murder of one person gives him emotional and spiritual satisfaction. Amongst the horrors and massive slaughter of the Eastern Front, maintaining concern for the plight of individuals becomes a massive victory in itself. I don't mean to make Bora sound like a goody-goody. He's a soldier and a damned good one. He fights and kills in battle and his clandestine struggle against evil representatives of his own side requires him to lie and cheat and even kill another German in cold-blood, though he makes it look as though a Russian sniper did it. He loves, He hates (the SS, the Gestapo and partisans equally). He has a tendency to haughtiness. He has no time for fools, but can sometimes be a fool himself about women. He feels deeply yet cultivates an impassive mien. He loves his family devotedly but cuts himself off from them because he fears for their fate if he is arrested. His interior struggles are as fierce as his experiences in combat."Tin Sky" is the fourth book in this series in terms of publication, but the events in it follow after the first book, "Lumen," and precede the events recounted in the second and third books, "Liar Moon" and "A Dark Song of Blood." In other words, the books are being published out of historical order.If you enjoy this series I also highly recommend the Schellendorf series written by Lyn Alexander, ("Officers' Code," "Versailles Legacy," "The English GeneraI," and "Ghosts of War." It is also written from the German point of view, and again the hero is a highly conflicted soldier trying his best for Germany, which, in his opinion, doesn't include Hitler and the Nazis. This character, Erich von Schellendorf (nee Eric Foster) has the added complication that he's English by birth. No mysteries in this series, but it is wonderfully engaging historical fiction, accurate historically and with a fascinating main character.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Threading the Nazi needle... By Jill Meyer "Tin Sky" is the fourth mystery in author Ben Pastor's "Martin Bora" series. Set in WW2, Bora, is a major with the German Abwehr service. The first three books, set in Crakow and and Rome, are followed by "Tin Sky", which takes place in Kharkov, Ukraine, in late Spring, 1943, after the German defeat at Stalingrad. Bora is involved in duties of protecting a Russian general who is defecting to the German side, cleaning out a mysterious forest area - said to be full of ghosts and murderers - and setting up a new fighting unit. Martin Bora - the son of a famous musician and the step-son of a famous German general - is written as a man at odds with the world around him. Ben Pastor, the author, has to thread a very small Nazi needle here with her character. Is Martin Bora a murderer of Jews and other civilians, or is he a "good guy"? Does he only kill other soldiers, Russian soldiers? So much random and organised killing is done on the Russian front; how much is Bora responsible for? He does mount an offensive to kill Russian partisans in the forest and is successful at that.In "Tin Sky", Ben Pastor mixes the personal with the professional. She writes Martin Bora as a soldier - dedicated to his tasks - but also as a son, brother, friend, and yearning husband. The merging of the two views of Bora give Pastor's readers a well-rounded look at a very complicated man.I can't imagine much more of a difficult writing task than to write about German soldiers in WW2. Ben Pastor does a pretty good job in her series, but it can't be easy to do. Her books really cannot be compared to other authors writing about WW2, like Alan Furst, Philip Kerr, and David Downing, to name a few. Their books are usually of a larger picture of the war, whereas Ben Pastor gets down and dirty with her character and plots. Death is ever-present, in military action and in murders."Tin Sky" has a very complicated plot and readers should know something already about the German occupation in Ukraine after the Battle of Stalingrad. For those readers, "Tin Sky" is a very good book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Well-Done But Complex By zorba This was a very well-written book, but I think the author's incredible eye for historic detail was overdone to the point where the plot got lost. I was enjoying the book but discovered I had lost my sense of the plot somewhere along the way. Pastor's characters are very well-developed and her knowledge of a part of the Ukraine in a somewhat backwater of World War II are impressive, as is her understanding of the Nazi war machine and the often subtle politics that exist within. So, all in all, it was a masterful book, but one which forces you to work at understanding the unfolding of the plot.
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