The Bleiberg Project

It sounds like an interesting idea, the Nazi party has done research on radiation and the effects on the human body. Blieberg a Jewish scientist wants to continue research in the area. Looking to make a ultra human or superman.What would the implications be today it the experiment worked. How would it change history if the subject escaped. This book is a thrilling look into the ideology of this occurring. And how they can expose the Consortium and end the evil they want to inflict on the world. Very good job at an action adventure book

I received an e-copy of The Bleiberg Project by David Khara from Netgalley. I have to admit when I think about reading anything related to the Holocaust it makes me want to run the other way. Knowing everything that was done and probably not being aware of some things makes it a hard subject to digest. I have to admit this is my first foray into reading about this topic for that very reason. But, when I read the synopsis I thought this sounds really good and just maybe there is a good enough ending that I will not feel totally depressed afterwards.

The characterization in the story was done really well. I have to admit that Jeremy Corbin, even without knowing his secret, makes it hard to like him. He is quite witty and also so darn down on himself it makes you want to avoid him. But, as the book goes on you start to become invested in his pain and hope that somewhere down the line things get better for him. Oddly enough his thoughts about Jackie Wells at first seemed a bit off to me, then as I read on I decided he is just a bit self-centered and immature and kind of thinks of her in high-school terms. Jeremy takes body blow after body blow in losses and as he deals with them throughout the book you start to see him maturing and growing and realizing how he lost more than he realized with his father.

I love reading books based in other countries, especially Europe and Eastern Europe. This book did a good job of giving me a bit of armchair travel. There was not a lot by way of describing the sites in the different places they visited when they arrived in Switzerland and made their way across to Poland but, there were enough of the descriptions that it grabbed my interest. What was really great was the tie-in to some of the rumors of some of the medical testing that happened in the camps. They were nicely woven into this book. But, my all-time favorite part of this book was Eytan Morg. I love reading about and seeing stories on television about the Kidon unit of The Mossad. Granted they are not nice people but, this was my first book that I got to read about some of what they do and what is known about their skills. It took me back to my favorite parts of NCIS and the character Ziva who was also Kidon. Eytan was larger than life and not just due to his size. He was this amazing, scarred man who didn’t allow himself to have anything other than the work he did and we find out why in The Bleiberg Project. That part of the story was riveting. Eytan’s fight scenes were awesome and jumped off the page when you read them. Interestingly enough at the beginning of the book you don’t know whose side he is on so he comes off as if he might be one of the bad guys but, he is so much more.

I just read on Goodreads that this is the start of a series and I have to say a very good start and I look forward to following this series every step of the way!
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From the beginning I was engrossed by this book. Jeremy Corbin is a trader on Wall Street, he has been depressed and drinking quite a bit because of an accident in which he killed a young child. He learns his father is not who he thought he was. He was informed by CIA that his father was killed. He is given a Nazi medallion and put on a plane to Zurich accompanied by a female CIA agent who is quite beautiful. His mother is killed in a suspicious accident and they are being followed by a Mossad agent. Everything happens during the second world war and continues through present day.
This is a well written plot with believable and great characters.

****I received this book from the publisher in return for an honest review*****

'The Bleiberg Project' by David S. Khara (with translation by Simon John) is a pretty good ride, but I had to give it quite a few pages before I decided that. It's part of a series, but this book is a good standalone adventure.

The story takes place in the present but reaches all the way back to 1942. In the modern time, Jay is a stockbroker and playboy who lives to drown himself in women and alcohol every night. That is, until he gets the call that his estranged father has been killed. Clues around his father's death lead to Jay being on the run with a pretty CIA bodyguard and being chased by a Mossad agent. They find themselves in Europe with a mystery that goes back to World War 2. Who was Jay's father and why did he leave the family? Who is Bleiberg and what was he doing for the Nazis?

I liked it, but initially the Jay character really annoyed me. I really didn't like him. The other characters were fine. The translation is good and the story really moves along. I look forward to reading further books in the series.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Le French Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

Hi Karen,
My next review is as follows:-

"The Bleiberg Project", written by-David.Khara/Simon John (translator) and published on the 30.4.2013 in Kindle by Le French Book
Review Copy supplied by courtesy of Netgalley.com

Jay Novacek is a high earning, hard drinking young man working in a New York Financial stock broker where he is bored by the vast amounts of money he receives for the predictable services he provides to his clients. His father left his mother when Jeremy was very young and this was always a deep cause of anger but suddenly he finds out that his long-lost father is dead, he discovers his boss's real identity, and he ends up boarding a plane to Zurich under his real name of Jeremy Corbin. He has a Nazi medallion in his pocket, a hot CIA body guard next to him, and a clearly dangerous Mossad agent on his tail. What was his father investigating? Why was his mother assassinated? Why are unknown sides fighting over him with automatic weapons? Far from his posh New York apartment, he races to save the world from a horrific conspiracy straight out of the darkest hours of history. Can it be stopped? This very fast-paced thriller was an instant sensation in France. It reminded me of "The Day After Tomorrow" by Allan Folsom but it does have elements of Clive Cussler about it. It seems very strange to have been written originally in French for the French book market but with such an Anglo-American plot-line to it. .

It does have a very strong narrative to it's strongly plotted story which being multifaceted alternates chapters of the present day with a past storyline happening during the Second World War in experiments by Nazi doctors on Jewish prisoners. Once I started this, I just could not put it down for very long and found the very attractive plot very gripping. I don't know whether David Khara/Simon John(translator) has written any other books for the English market but if not they should as this book was sensational.Well recommended.

Best wishes,

Terry
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