The Salzburg Connection

One of my favorite thrillers. I was delighted to track down a copy, since mine fell apart and was discarded years ago. Not great literature, but great entertainment for a cold, snowy winter weekend. I've visited Salzburg a couple of times, and MacInnes captures the feel of the lovely city and the Salzkammergut region. I read all of her books back in the '70s, but this is my favorite. Too bad the movie did not do justice... Read Full Review

Helen MacInnes' 1968 novel "The Salzburg Connection" twists like a mountain road in Austria. The characters do not get overly deep as MacInnes focuses on the swirl of events. As the novel begins and we join Richard Bryant on finally following a lead from the war on where the Nazis hid a box of important secrets in the obscure Finstersee Lake high in the Alps, we begin to wonder if there's going to be a dead body for every... Read Full Review

I bought one of MacInnes' spy thrillers in a small drug store in Kentucky during Christmas vacation in the late sixties and then read them all. For a grad student locked into classroom and homework, it was perfect escapism, a way to travel to exotic places like old Europe and experience the flavor of the WWII era without getting hurt. After MacInnes, nothing else in the mystery category satisfied me, until I accidentally discovered... Read Full Review

This is a really good novel, full of suspense. A tale of espionage, this is about the search for an old chest full of nazi documents. With agents from all sides trying to get to it, a lot of dead bodies turn up. Written some years ago, this is worth reading, with an unexpected, everyman hero.

Certainly it is one of Helen MacInnes' most suspenseful novels! In "The Salzburg Connection," MacInnes once again couples history with the present. This time, however, she doesn't have to go back so far. In a deep lake in the Austrian Alps lies a chest filled with Nazi secrets and agents from a number of countries are most eager to get possession of such a potetntial "weapon"--it doesn't contain literal treasure, but lists... Read Full Review