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Loved this book. Lots of action, well structured and good writing with a touch of the supernatural. My first by this author but will be reading more. Would liked to gave seen the protagonist transform into more of a monster but this would probably have led the story astray.

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Quentin Bults

Historical fiction at its most imaginative

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 16, 2020

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I think I would call this speculative Horror. Vibrant characters, imaginative storyline, and a good dose of escapism. Highly recommended.

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mike west

Have yet to read it, but the book arrived in great shape...as advertised!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 5, 2020

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The quality of the product matched the sellers' description, so, no complaints from me. I have not yet read the book, but as this is a review of Amazon's process, not the writers', the quality of the writing is hardly worth discussing;)

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Tracy

Excellent!!!!!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 26, 2018

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Book was in good used shape as described! Very happy as this is an old book. Fast shipping!!

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H. McLeod

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 12, 2018

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2017

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Perfect

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Douglas McLellan

nonsense beyond reason

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 8, 2015

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II I IWould not recommend to anyone because there is no real plot, just one piece of rubbish after another. Always a easy escape.

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Howling Good Time

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 31, 2012

It was fun to return to this novel twenty years after I first read it. In many ways McCammon is superior to Stephen King. Both authors can be a tad verbose and McCammon could have whittled The Wolf's Hour down. But in the end who is going to argue over a few extra pages when the subject is a Russian-born British spy who takes on Nazis as a werewolf. The interspersed flashbacks that explain how Michael Gallatin is able to take on wolf form add to the whole outing. The main plot itself drags a bit with the author seemingly wanting to do a travelogue of Europe. Yet, it is fun, campy with an old time serial movie feel. Specifically I have to commend McCammon for the riveting scene involving Gallatin and a Panzer (Mark II or III I guess). The reason I returned to this novel years later was to reacquaint myself before sinking my teeth into The Hunter from the Woods which is McCammon's follow-up published in 2011.

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Clayton Bye

The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 29, 2009

Wolf's Hour

The Wolf's Hour
by Robert R. McCammon
Pocket Books, 1989
ISBN: 0-671-66485-9
603 pages
Mass Market Paperback
Historical Fiction/Horror

What can I say about Robert McCammon? A brilliant 1980's author who's storytelling is not easily classified (Mystery Walk, Gone South, The Wolf's Hour, Boy's Life), McCammon retired in the early 1990's, "citing variously depression, exhaustion from overwork, a desire to spend more time with his family, and frustration with publishers, who insisted he limit himself to writing genre horror fiction when he wanted to explore other literary forms." McCammon returned to the publishing world in 2002 with his intriguing historical novel Speaks the Nightbird.

The Wolf's Hour (1989), one of my favourite McCammon books is probably his strangest work to date. Two stories in one, The Wolf's Hour follows the exploits of intelligence agent extraordinaire Michael Gallatin as he frantically tries to foil a Nazi plot to emasculate the allied invasion of Europe in 1944, and it also chronicles the life of Mikhail Gallatinov, a boy who is saved from a Russian Death Squad in 1918 only to become a werewolf.

The two people are obviously the same, and what makes this story work is the amazing and heroic tale that takes an orphaned Russian and turns him into a British werewolf spy who is eventually able to answer the question "What is the lycanthrope in the eyes of God?"

The Wolf's Hour is a treat. Every character in the book is painted larger than life, and each scene stands out clearly in the mind as it comes to a close. I've often wondered why the book has never been put on film.

Yes, some of the criticisms you'll read are true: the writing does get better as the book progresses, and the distinction between the good guys and the bad guys is never blurred. There are even some situations that are so over the top you'll laugh and shake your head in disbelief. Then you have the one item I really dislike, which is the unworkable explanation of how one becomes a werewolf (think about it as you read the book, if you wish: you'll figure it out.). But The Wolf's Hour is still unique in the writing world: it breaks the mold of the werewolf as a tragic but fundamentally evil soul, bringing the reader a complex, moral and intelligent creature with free will. No wonder the book became a New York Times bestseller and was nominated by the Horror Writers Association for a Bram Stoker award.

In fact, according to my research, during the period from 1987 to 1991, Robert R. McCammon received the following Bram Stoker nominations and awards:1987, Novel: Swan Song (Winner), Short story: The Deep End (Winner); 1988, Novel: Stinger (Nominated); 1989, Novel: The Wolf's Hour (Nominated), Short story: Eat Me (Winner), Collections: Blue World (Nominated); 1990, Novel: MINE (Winner) and 1991, Novel: Boy's Life (Winner).

The Wolf's Hour, complete in itself, leaves two great openings for a sequel. It's my hope that McCammon (who has spoken of doing so) will one day treat us to this story.

Copyright © Clayton Clifford Bye 2009

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