Not Just a Game
What a great idea for the novel, mixing three generations of professional athletes with historical events in...
It is 1936 as track star Dietrich Becker trains for the Berlin Olympics. Supported by his wife and an unknown benefactor, Dietrich is hiding a dangerous secret: he is Jewish. But when he unexpectedly loses to the legendary Jesse Owens, a humiliated Dietrich crumbles under overwhelming pressure and makes a decision that changes everything. Thirty-six years later, Dietrich's son, Adam, assistant head of the 1972 Israeli Olympic team, travels to Munich, where eleven Israeli athletes including one of his friends, fencing coach Levi Frankel, are murdered by Islamic terrorists. Eventually Adam's daughter, Kirsten, is taught to fence by Levi's widow and sets her sights on the 2016 Olympics. When she travels to Rio with the Israeli team just as Nazism is reborn, Kirsten and a French fencer become intrigued by rumors that Hitler fled WWII to South America. After visiting Bariloche, Argentina to investigate, they explore Hitler's house and find the priceless Amber Room. As her journey leads her back to the Olympics, Kirsten soon discovers she is fighting not just to win gold but...
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Doug Zipes takes his readers along for a story that encompasses the better part of a century, from the 1930s and the Berlin Olympiad in 1936, all the way through the Rio Olympics in 2016, all told in the framework of a familys history. Zipes wants to tell an important story about family about love, loyalty, and perseverance and uses... Three generations, fighting to compete and survive, but unknown to them, their fight will not only be for the gold of victory but also to stop something that once could end the world as we know it.In my opinion, one of the ways for you to know how good a book can be, its the effect it has on you, if it makes you forget that is all fiction... What a great idea for the novel, mixing three generations of professional athletes with historical events in three different eras and top it all with Nazism and Hitler. I absolutely love the idea for the plot, but the execution is even better. The book is divided into three parts, we are in 1930s in Berlin, there is our main guy Dietrich,...
