Like Donald Trump himself, the book named for his Fifth Avenue edifice shows the gaudy, the larger than life, the exaggerated and the ridiculous. With chapters named for the characters’ addresses, Triburbia is a look at upwardly mobile men in NYC - and the troubles that go with them. The half-dozen fathers - sound engineer, sculptor, film producer, chef, writer and gangster - meet schoolday mornings at a local coffee shop after dropping off their kids, where they compare notes and catch up. Switching up the usual “Desperate Housewives” formula, Greenfield gives us a group of dads who live in chic TriBeCa and whose kids all go to the same school. Operation Fortitude employed a Serbian playboy, code name Tricycle a petite Polish fighter, Brutus a bisexual party-girl daughter of a Peruvian diplomat, Bronx a Frenchwoman whose dog endangered the mission, Treasure and a Spaniard, Garbo. London Times writer Macintyre (“Agent Zigzag,” “Operation Mincemeat”) concludes his WWII espionage trilogy with the tantalizing tale of an oddball, “Dirty Dozen”-like group of double agents who fool the Nazis into believing the Allied D-Day attack would come at Calais, not Normandy.
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