Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)I am so fortunate that I acquired a signed first edition of this book, because I will treasure it for years to come. In his newest, Dunning crafts a story of a writer, caught up in a mystery due to a lost love. Stumbling through America in the war years, he manages to find a way to bring the truth to life, but along the way he finds himself in the broadcast radio game, and it is there that his talent truly comes alive. Dunning tops the story off with a coda that leaves the reader guessing as to whom Jack/Jordan finally spends the rest of his life with.
I haven't given up on the return of Cliff Janeway, the "Bookman" and hope that Dunning will return to his hero in the future, but "Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime" is an outstanding read.
Remembering my parents & grandparents talking about sitting around the radio for hours to listen, learn and be entertained, I always wondered about the attraction - Dunning has helped put that in perspective by giving the reader a sense of the magic that was radio during the war years in the 30's and 40's. Obviously an expert on the topic, he wraps his knowledge around a well written mystery with a hero you can really care about and an interesting cast of bit players.
I am a mystery/thriller buff, and don't often come across truly great writing - the thrill is the mystery itself, the element of surprise and sometimes disaster. Dunning can do it all. He can share a mystery with his readers but the quality of his own writer's craftsmanship appears throughout the novel, and makes it come alive..."He dreamed that there was no war. Got up at three and exploded into his work, as if the answer to everything lay in some unwritten script still hidden away in his mind..."; Dunning captures the thrill and the fulfillment of being a great writer and shares it with all of us who have never known that rush.
Please read "Two O'clock Eastern Wartime", you will have no regrets.

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