The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele’s nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project–the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can … he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed.
Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious “Angel of Death”? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings–Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality.
At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.
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Classic thriller focussing on an imaginary conspiracy, where Dr Josef Mengele plots to create a new version of the Third Reich. Emerging from his hideout in South America, Mengele initiates a series of murders, assembling a band of former soldiers to set his scheme in motion. Meanwhile, Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman receives a strange phone call …
One of the best thrillers I have ever read. The book does a great job of building a frighteningly real conspiracy. A well written plot and characters that are believable make this a fantastic read.
A plot begins to hatch in Paraguay that involves the death of 92 men over the next 30 months. The story has a steady pace (not fast) and moves forward …
Ira Levin’s work functions on two levels: as expert genre pieces, and as satire. Some (THE STEPFORD WIVES) lean harder toward the latter direction. THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL leans closer to a straight genre piece, albeit a very sly one, with tongue half in-cheek. Like all his best work it is compulsively readable, meticulously constructed, and utterly …
Josef Mengela is alive and well, hiding in South America. He and a group of former Nazi colleagues have gathered to rebuild the ranks of Hitler’s Third Reich. When a young journalist learns of the project, he informs a famed Nazi hunter. However, he is murdered before he can deliver the evidence.
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I read this book because of the medical-genomic subplot. I learned a lot. It is an interesting yet, disturbing book that was made into a 1978 movie starring Gregory Peck (nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor). Ira Levin created a Michael Crichton-type story in the mid-1970s about human cloning. This was 20 years before Dolly “the cloned …