The Boys from Brazil

Hardcover, 456 pages

English language

Published Feb. 21, 1976 by G. K. Hall.

ISBN:
978-0-8161-6392-2
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OCLC Number:
59889451

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In a Japanese restaurant in Säo Paulo, Brazil, a group of seemingly affable Germans are having dinner. In reality they are Dr. Josef Mengele, "the angel of Auschwitz," and six former SS men who are setting in motion a worldwide plan of assassination: 94 men in six western countries, with no apparent importance or connection to each other, will die according to a carefully timed schedule — unless Yakov Liebermann, an ageing Nazi hunter, can stop the slayings. Racing against time, Liebermann tries to determine the common denominator that has marked the victims for extinction: each man, he finds, has a much younger wife and a dark-haired, 12-year-old son .. .

From this emerges a genetic plot with implications so devastating for the future of mankind, "you won't stop reading." Publishers Weekly. --jacket

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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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