June 2023 Indie Book Review

The Brazilian Affair by Steven Jacobs

1980’s Made for TV Movie
An Indie Book Review by Joseph Poopinski
3 stars

Steven Jacobs applied a twist of fiction to a factual event & voila, a great premise:  The British sabotaged the Hindenburg to prevent an even worse disaster.  There were bloopers & typos galore which, I think, did not interfere with plot comprehension.  Most of the separately named characters’ personalities blended together.  They spoke contractionless, wooden dialogue & behaved irrationally throughout.  However, the real threat aboard the Brazilian Queen, the mysterious Uber-assassin Orion, & surrounding intrigue ultimately proved memorable.  This would’ve made a big splash for any television network during the heyday of spy movies.

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