The Last Nazi: a spy thriller (A Joe Johnson Thriller, Book 1)

The Last Nazi is a fast moving historical fiction where present day ex CIA and OSI agent and Nazi hunter, Joe Johnson chases one that got away. This is my first book by author Andrew Turpin. This book started off really well for me but I could not quite get my head around one or two of the rather implausible plot twists. Joe Johnston is still developing in this first novel, might be interesting to see how he turns out in the second and third novels in this series. It is a fast paced novel and there is plenty of action for action lovers. I did enjoy it despite the rather convoluted and at times silly plot. It is a well written and suspenseful novel worthy of reading. I plan to read more in the series.

I am an avid reader and take advantage of Kindle deals and Amazon’s Prime First Reads, one of which is probably how I came upon this book, and boy am I GLAD I DID. It’s a fast, captivating plot and I did not want to put it down. I especially appreciate the author reaching out to his readers at the end of the book. Well done, sir. You have a new fan. I’m about to start reading The Afghan now.

Good read connecting South America and nazi Germany . Plausible, disgusting, scarey. We see some of this trying to come today. History forgotten is repeated,

Anybody who enjoys spy thrillers will enjoy this book. The plot is mostly plausible. Well written and easy to read.

Excellent. Well researched, believable story line, and enough intricate plot twists to keep me reading almost non-stop. I tried to put it down a couple of times, then gave up and kept on to the end.

I read books aloud to hubby, as we enjoy sharing events "as they happen". We also share the same interests, especially anything to do with WWII; thus, this book piqued our interest from the title alone. We liked the book very much, but it was hard to get into and did not flow well. The author jumps around an awful lot; we had a hard time keeping the characters straight, constantly having to refresh our memory from chapter to chapter as to who was associated with what organization and what their involvement was in the story. Thus, I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. On the other hand, there were many parts of the book that were suspenseful and exciting, and we are talking about trying the next Joe Johnson thriller in the series, "The Old Bridge". It's not about WWII, unfortunately, but neither are the Cormoran Strike detective mysteries that we love so much by J.K. Rowling, and would be a good book to read while we anxiously await J.K. Rowling's 4th novel in the detective series, supposedly being printed as we speak. One last comment: I can imagine this author -- Turpin -- writing a novel about the German U-boats in the Atlantic during WWII -- oooh boy, now THAT's something we could really get into!

While I was hoping for more WWII scenes & stories, I was not really very disappointed. The idea of the storyline was not far-fetched but completely possible. I wonder how many old Nazi's there are still left in hiding? The characters were not cardboard cutouts, but real people one could meet & easily recognize. The traveling story took me to many places I will never see w/ my own eyes. The only negative I can say is that, despite my trying to take my time & make this book last, I finished it too quickly!

This book was a spine tingling got to keep reading book. I had a hard time putting it down. I highly recommend it!

I'm particularly interested in the Holocaust as my Father was a survivor, and I'm currently writing as book about him and my Irish Mum, and what he went through during the war and afterwards. Of course, books about the 2nd World War interest me, and this is a great example of a well-written and researched book, showing in detail the horrors of that time and the after effects. The main character is very likeable, especially as he has a mother who shares the same name as me! The story is interesting and I managed to read every word on every page, even though it is a long book with small writing! I have already delved into some of the research tools Andrew used and have also checked out his other books. The next one is on order, and I hope he keeps up the pace with that one too. All in all, a great first book and one which I can only recommend to friends and family.

I cannot believe the amount of 5 star reviews this book is getting. It’s risible tosh, in which several of the main active protagonists are 90 year old Nazis and Holocaust survivors. So full of wildly implausible nonsense (like a leading Republican candidate for US president’s brother gets murdered, but everything just carries on towards the nomination) that I pretty much gave up halfway through. The lead character is an entirely unsympathetic cardboard cut-out. People zoom around the world in pursuit of their various schemes and objectives in the blink of any eye and without any real life style things getting in their way. I skim read the last 200 pages. Sooo boring and predictable, yet at the same time ridiculously far fetched. Hugely disappointing. Avoid.

The Last Nazi is Andrew Turpin's debut novel and is a good one. It's the first in a series featuring Joe Johnson, a former CIA agent and employee of OSI responsible for tracking down Nazi war criminals living in the USA. When we first meet him, he's an independent private investigator and his current assignment involves, as the title suggests, finding one of the last remaining Nazi war criminals still at large.Johnson himself is a very attractive character. In his fifties, he's brave and resourceful and utterly determined. Anybody on the wrong side of the angels better look out. His two chief allies are both women; an American journalist and an MI6 agent, and they too are both interesting and very committed.The plot involves tracking down a former SS brute, hiding out his declining years in Buenos Aires. There are complications involving the bad guy's son, two survivors of the camps who are twins, the jewellery business, the son of one of the twins seeking the US Republican Party's Presidential nomination, the CIA and the Mossad. Collectively, these threads make for an engaging narrative.Character and location descriptions are excellent and, together with the tale, this helps to create a satisfactory read. If I had one criticism it's that the ending dragged a little with the chasing of the bad guys through Polish tunnels and around Argentinian border towns. Still that's definitely not enough to stop me reading the next in the series to which I'm looking forward.

The plot is reasonable but, quite frankly, the telling of it isn’t.Narration is flat, unbelievably naive and grammatically poor: it reads like an early submission to a creative writing course. Characterisation is shallow and although the main subjects are from three or four different countries, their dialogue holds no differential indicators other than the odd italicised word in Spanish. It struggles to hold attention and at times wonders aimlessly into the realm of impossibility.It’s a shame because, as I said, the plot is reasonable. A missed opportunity.

I really enjoyed reading this book and the plot it was based upon. I'm sure that there are so many stories regarding the hunting down of old Nazi war criminals that this would not be the strangest of them all. Joe Johnson is the intrepid investigator who along with his journalist friend Fiona Heppenstall follows the trail from America to England then Poland and finally Argentina. The characters are described in enough depth that you can either dislike of empathise with them. The action is well described and reasonably fast paced. A great book for those who like an action packed book.