Sue 's Reviews > Bluebird

This wonderful, insightful novel begins in 1946 when Eva is arriving in New City from the rubble of Berlin. She's taking care of a young girl who can't speak for herself. Brigit has been unable to speak since a terrible event happened to her during the war. Eva works to make everyone believe that she is in America to start a new life but the truth is that she holds a deadly secret. She has been asked by the CIA to participate in project Bluebird - a plan to find a Nazi doctor who was working on developing mind control and is hiding in the US to avoid Nuremberg trials. The doctor worked on his theory using prisoners in the concentration camps with no regard to whether they lived or died due to his experiments. Once he is found, the government plans to make sure that he stays free and works for them to further develop mind control. Eva agreed to help to get out of Germany but her plan is much different -- she wants revenge for all of the atrocities that were performed on the prisoners at the camps.

When Eva was growing up in Berlin during the war, she believed the rhetoric of the Nazis. Her parents and the rest of the family followed Nazi beliefs and were enamored with Hitler. As the war continued and she learned more about the concentration camps and the treatment of Jewish people, the more she turned away from Nazi beliefs. When the war ends in defeat, she begins to question everything and works to help other people and get revenge for them on the people who treated them so cruelly.

This book was well written and it is apparent that a lot of research was done. I had never heard of project Bluebird and spent some time on goggle learning about it. This book has it all - it's full of suspense, friendship and a bit of romance. It's full of twists and turns and hope that Eva finds the guilty people before they find her and kill her.

This was a book that I didn't want to put down and now I plan to check out earlier books by this author.