{"id":2077,"date":"2014-06-13T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2015-01-04T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T12:50:25","slug":"ordinary-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"****Ordinary Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott<\/a>By Scott Turow<\/strong>, this World War II tale (2005) started off slowly for me, but by the time the main protagonist (the narrator\u2019s now-dead father) is in the European war zone, I was hooked. The narrator discovers that his father, a Captain in the U.S. Army\u2019s Judge Advocate General\u2019s office, was court-martialed near the end of the war and could have faced a firing squad for his actions in pursuit of an OSS rogue spy.<\/p>\n

The framing story that introduces the narrator\u2019s quest to excavate his father\u2019s past wasn\u2019t quite compelling enough and the big reveal not that much of a surprise, but the book\u2019s middle was terrific. Characters were well developed, and various hellish aspects and moral conundrums of war convincingly frustrated the captain\u2019s search for the spy at every turn. Coming to terms with the damage of war was a life-long project for the father, carried on silently throughout the narrator\u2019s life. New York Times<\/em> reviewer Joseph Kanon<\/a> liked it, too.
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