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The Boys from Brazil

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Open Road Media, May 10, 2011 - Fiction - 286 pages
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. Barry Koehler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the scheme and informs famed Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, but before he can relay the evidence, Koehler 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—Liebermann, 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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And the structure and pace are superbly handled. - Goodreads
It showed some insight into the nature of extremism. - Goodreads
In that regard I feel the plot works. - Goodreads
The writing of the story is tight and dramatic. - Goodreads
It is a very strange and eerie plot. - Goodreads
Levin isn't that kind of writer. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Holly - Goodreads

The Boys from Brazil was just laying around the house back in 1996. I'd never read it and my husband never recommended it. One night, completely out of new books to read, I picked it up off the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Maggie - Goodreads

A well paced suspense thriller with a sci-fi twist. Ira Levin takes an idea that seems far fetched and makes it plausible. The story was also an interesting look at the work of Nazi hunters. It's ... Read full review

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Ira Levin is the author of The Boys from Brazil, The Stepford Wives, This Perfect Day, Silver, and A Kiss Before Dying (for which he won the Edgar Award). All of his novels were international bestsellers, including Rosemary’s Baby and Son of Rosemary, selling tens of millions of copies around the world. A number of famous Hollywood movies were adapted from his books, and his play Deathtrap was the longest running comic thriller in the history of Broadway. Ira Levin died in 2007.

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