What Fiction are you reading this week, June 6, 2021?

[Midnight Writer]

24. The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon

I bought this book when it first came out in 1989 from a paperback rack. I am a fan of McCammon's so I picked it up as soon as I saw his name on it.

Then I got it home and read the back cover synopsis.

Uh oh.

The novel is about a werewolf during WWII working as a spy for the Allies.

Are you kidding me? What kind of ridiculous tripe is this?

So I pitched the book into my pile of unread books and it sat there for years, always passed over for other books that looked more...viable.

Finally, I picked it up and started it, and it was amazing. How you can take such a ludicrous plot and turn it into a stupendous, heart wrenching book is beyond me, but McCammon pulls it off and makes it seem effortless. I actually shed a tear during one part, rare for me.

Recently, I saw it included in a threefer package for Amazon Kindle for $2.99, so I bought it and am now re-reading it. It truly is a tremendous book, and the other two books in the package are very good, too.