Double Exposure
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
From the creators of Smallville and Into the Badlands comes an action-packed "triple feature" debut thriller about a war veteran and CIA officer in the 1960s swept up into a cat and mouse game with enormous, world-altering consequences where Hitler may still be alive (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist and The First Conspiracy).
David Toland, a decorated Korean War veteran, has done all he can to leave a life of combat behind. Now Director of Preservation for the Library of Congress's National Film Archive, Toland has made it his mission to preserve what he loves most: the Golden Age of American cinema, moving pictures full of romance, adventure and American Dream. That is, until CIA Agent Lana Welles drops in unannounced with a film canister, smuggled over the Berlin Wall at great cost, that may prove WWII never really ended -- it just went underground.
David reluctantly agrees to serve his country one last time and help recover the film for Lana and the CIA. But it seems not everyone is as eager as they are to dig up the past. David and Lana's discovery awakens shadowy forces who will do anything to keep their findings a secret. In search of the truth, David and Lana find themselves intertwined in a global conspiracy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gough and Millar, the creators of TV's Smallville, miss the mark in their cartoonish fiction debut. In December 1961, Korean War veteran David Toland, who's now a film preservationist in Washington, D.C., is approached by attractive CIA agent Lana Welles, who tells him that the U.S. government needs his skills. When they reach CIA headquarters, he's given a badly decayed and bullet-ridden reel of film, which he's told was smuggled to the West by a KGB agent who became an American asset. Toland makes a viewable print and, after surviving an assassination attempt, arranges with a friend to use a movie theater to screen what he's reconstructed. He's stunned by film footage apparently showing Hitler killing a double whose corpse was left in his stead in the Fuehrer Bunker at the end of WWII. Toland and Welles team up for a globe-trotting search for Hitler, which takes them to Europe and beyond toward the predictable reveal. Emotionally underdeveloped characters undercut any chance of engagement with the over-the-top story line.
