{"id":21933,"date":"2026-04-22T19:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21933"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:43:59","slug":"mission-37-by-michael-berk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21933","title":{"rendered":"‘Mission 37,’ by Michael Berk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In England after World War II<\/strong>, Jack Monroe is a doctor in the US Army Air Corps. To his surprise, he\u2019s ordered to go to Germany and observe a top-secret autopsy along with an international group of physicians. The subject of the procedure is supposed to be an obscure German named Martin Bormann. Jack considers the autopsy perfunctory and unprofessional, as if somebody is covering tracks. Afterward he can\u2019t resist going see the English doctor who was also present, only to learn that the man has been run down by a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inquiring further, he gets into contact with Simon and Dionne, a couple of young people who turn out to be agents for a shadowy organization of Holocaust survivors. And that leads to all the intrigue and adventure that follow in Michael Berk\u2019s Mission 37<\/a><\/em>, first volume in a series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book wasn\u2019t bad, all in all. It was more like a mystery than the usual thriller nowadays, as the main focus is on the puzzle of Martin Bormann\u2019s fate rather than on action and violence. There is action and violence, but our hero is more often rescued than active in the fights. (The solution to the mystery, I ought to mention, did surprise me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is romance and sex in this book, but the sex happens offstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writing was passable, better than a lot that I see these days. My main complaint was typesetting \u2013 there are whole sections where the quotation marks disappear for no apparent reason, making the dialogue hard to understand. I suspect the fault is in A.I. proofreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did appreciate the book\u2019s pro-Israel slant, which is not only rare but brave nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recommend Mission 37<\/em> moderately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In England after World War II, Jack Monroe is a doctor in the US Army Air Corps. To his surprise, he\u2019s ordered to go to Germany and observe a top-secret autopsy along with an international group of physicians. The subject of the procedure is supposed to be an obscure German named Martin Bormann. Jack considers … Continue reading ‘Mission 37,’ by Michael Berk<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[5929,5928,5930],"class_list":["post-21933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-jack-monroe","tag-michael-berk","tag-mission-37"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21936,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions\/21936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}