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Karl Meier is a private in the German Army. He's been sent to occupied Greece on a secret mission in late 1944 as the Wehrmacht is withdrawing from the country. Karl has been assigned to support Professor Hans Schmidt in the excavation of the ruins at Delphi, searching for a…
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As a sci-fi author myself, I don't know how Peter Cawdron manages to take write so many novels on first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence without being repetitive. He's done it again with The Oracle: a suspenseful, engaging story with another fresh take on first contact.
The Oracle shakes things up by being set in Greece during World War II, with references going back to ancient Greek mythology. Woven throughout the story is the thought-provoking, underlying theme of the horror and futility of war, as Private Meier transforms from an idealistic follower of Hitler to a man facing the reality of…
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