Kruger’s Korps Is An Old-Fashioned, Swashbuckling Adventure Tale |
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Kruger’s Korps Is An Old-Fashioned, Swashbuckling Adventure Tale
Harry Crocker’s latest novel proves that there’s still plenty of great World War II stories left to tell.
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Surely one of the most amazing aspects of American fascination with the Second World War is the sheer amount of popular content we have created about it. There are at least 700, if not over 1,000 Hollywood films about the war, depending on what you count (and probably more than 1,300 globally). There are somewhere between 5,000-10,000 English-language novels about it. One might then wonder: Is there still anything interesting to say about World War II?
If the new novel Kruger’s Korps by best-selling author H.W. Crocker III is any indication, the answer is absolutely yes. A spy thriller with elements of an Agatha Christie mystery and an H. Rider Haggard lost-world quest, Kruger’s Korps is an old-fashioned, page-turning adventure with a timeless religious sensibility.
The titular character of Crocker’s cloak-and-dagger novel is US Navy ensign Rolf Kruger, the son of working-class Bavarian immigrants who fled Hitler’s increasingly anti-Catholic fascist regime for sunny California. The strong and handsome twenty-something Kruger, a UCLA grad, cut his teeth in Hollywood, doing stunt-work and offering fencing lessons to actors when he wasn’t riding waves in the Pacific. Driven by an infectious patriotism, Kruger joined the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program, though his proficiency in German attracts the attention of naval intelligence, and he is sent to Washington, D.C., where our story begins.
In the nation’s capital, Kruger is recruited by Colonel William “Wild Bill” Donovan, head of the newly created Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency. Relegated to a boring desk job, Kruger spends his days maintaining his admirable peak physical........