Tuesday 23 August 2011

[Books] Ira Levin - The Boys From Brazil

Picked this up in the Amazon Kindle Summer Sale for 99p.  Heard about the book before and knew about its almost classic status so it was a no brainer to download it.

I loved this book.  Really simple and easy to read, nice and short but all the elements of a cracking story are there.  It concerns a plot by exiled Nazis, looked after by ODESSA, who are working for Josef Mengele (The "Angel Of Death") on his plan to bring about a new era of Nazism and the rebirth of the Aryan Race.  The plot is looked into by a Jewish Nazi hunter called Lieberman (who seems to be styled on real-life hunter Simon Weisenthal and his ilk).  The plot Mengele has in place involves the death of 94 men aged 64-66 in various countries.  He enlists 6 other former SS men to help him; but his plot is exposed by a young Nazi hunter who manages to get some information to Lieberman before Mengele snuffs him out.  Lieberman's quest to quash the plot takes him to

A great time killer, you could easily knock the book off in a few hours if you had time to sit down and just read.  I would recommend a joint read of this alongside Forsyth's "The ODESSA File", both of similar length and share a similar theme (the Nazi hunting bit, not the science bit).