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In this iconic suspense thriller, The Boys from Brazil, Ira Levin imagines a nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Stephen King famously called Levin “the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel,” and that precision is on full display here. Hidden in South America thirty years after the Second World War, the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele gathers former colleagues for a sinister project involving biological engineering and the creation of a Fourth Reich.
The story follows aging Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman, who is tipped off to the conspiracy just as his source is silenced. What follows is a masterful, globe-spanning chase that remains one of Levin’s most inventive and chillingly plausible tales. As the New York Times noted, the plot is extremely clever, weaving together themes of human automation and the rebirth of evil in a way that is both timeless and gripping.
