Book info

• Title The Boys from Brazil
• Author Ira Levin
• Year 1976
• Genre Thriller

In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America, thirty years after the end of the Second World War, Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a sinister project - the creation of the Fourth Reich. Ageing Nazi hunter Yakov Lieberman is informed of the plot but before he hears the evidence, his source is killed...

Thoughts

I found this one hard to get into, that first chapter with the Germans meeting in Japan is in so much fine detail that it felt like a really slow start to the story. However, once the plot started to thicken and the action picked up pace, I was hooked.

It’s a terrifying but believable concept, and once it starts to be revealed, the brilliant mystery turns into a thought-provoking read. Very much enjoyed, which was a nice surprise after the slow start.

Rating: 4 / 5