The Boys from Brazil

mass market paperback, 254 pages

English language

Published Feb. 21, 1992 by Signet.

ISBN:
978-0-451-17462-8
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OCLC Number:
831345222

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In a Japanese restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, six elderly men gather for a reunion dinner. After their meal they admire an engraved cigarette case owned by one of them. Then they are given their instructions.

The man with the cigarette case is Josef Mengele, former Nazi doctor, the instructions a timetable for the assassination of ninety-four insignificant civil servants — men whose deaths would trigger the final victory of the Fourth Reich . --back cover

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When I read the blurb for this novel, I scoffed at the premise. I'm still scoffing at the premise of it. Another W for Ira Levin, the man can't miss. The writing was just so fluid, conversations never awkward, inner monologue not corny and exposition never too obnoxious. I think his experience writing plays makes the way he sets scenes so engaging. The book really cemented him as my favourite author of all time. Also found it interesting how applicable the mindset of the protag was to current circumstances and perhaps even current public opinion.

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