Vacation Reading

I'm on vacating this week and headed to the beach, so I should have plenty of time for reading. I set aside The World Without Us in favor of books that sounded like more fun: First up is David Benioff's City of Thieves, which I started on the plane. So far it's pretty good--personal and suspenseful. The book starts off with a 34 year-old narrator who travels to Florida to visit his grandparents. He wants to write the life story of his grandfather, who, as a young man, lived in Poland during World War II. When the narrator reviews his notes and finds holes, his grandfather's reply is "you're a writer; make it up!" The book then shifts to the grandfather's perspective as a 17 year-old in Poland...