EricCWelch

With Canceled Czech, I have read, or listened to, all of the Evan Tanner mysteries. They really are a lot of fun. As usual, Tanner manages to make the best of terribly difficult situations by utilizing the services of friends he has acquired by belonging to every crackpot association or group in the world. He has been assigned by a super-secret U.S. Government agency to smuggle Janos Kotachek, a rather nasty Nazi who would like nothing better than to resurrect the Third Reich, out of a Czech prison, where he has been tried and sentenced to hang. It appears Kotachek was an invaluable source of information for the U.S. Government and they want him alive so they can continue to tap that resource. Fortunately for Tanner, Kotachek is suffering from a peculiar disease that makes him catatonic when exposed to strobe lights or severe shocks. This enables Tanner to enlist the aid of an Israeli hit squad also sent to assassinate Kotachek. Others in his little team include a voluptuous young German girl, the perfect Aryan offspring of a Nazi dwarf and his hideous wife, some Serbo-Croatian freedom fighters, a scientist who uses a Mobius strip to prove the earth flat, and a coffin to succeed in his assignment and gain $500,000 for his pet lost causes. He also solves a moral dilemma in a particularly appropriate and satisfying manner. But you’ll have to read or listen to the book to find out how.