(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

In 1939 Erick Von Roesler was spreading Hitler's gospel in Brazil when duty to the Reich called him home. He distinguished himself during the war, organizing slave labor camps, overseeing executions, and manning the gas chambers of Buchenwald, but in 1945 he felt it necessary to leave the land of his birth. His enthusiasm for the German cause undimmed, he returned to South America to remake the continent in the image of the fallen Reich.
For help, he calls on Hans Busch, a master propagandist who comes south from New York with $2 million earmarked for the Nazi revival. But this squat, unkempt little man is not the Nazi he claims to be. Hans Busch is merely a nom de guerre for Holocaust survivor Ari Schoenberg, who has come to take his revenge. With the help of Interpol's José Da Silva, he will dismantle the new Reich from the inside out.

I seem to have run into a series of books that had so much more potential than execution. This one is the same - there isn't actually anything necessarily wrong with it, just it wasn't what I had hoped for / expected.

The blurb sounds very good and, for the most part, the plot lives up to those expectations. The story of Ari is captivating and certainly the highlight of this book. Jose was pretty good, too, but the supporting cast was pretty non-existent on the "memorable"scale.

The biggest issue I had was the age of the story. Originally released in the 1960's, the story reads like a 50-year-old book. For some people, that's not a problem. For me, it just isn't what I like to read much.


Paul
ARH