The Bleiberg Project

The Blieberg Project by David Khara. Published by Le French Book Posted on May 21, 2014 by cayocosta72

Adolph Hitler wanted to create what he considered a super race of humans – Aryans who were stronger, faster and smarter than anyone else. During his reign of terror, he recruited medical doctors to experiment on concentration camp prisoners to create these super beings. The question is, did he succeed? Jeremy Corbin, as he calls himself these days, is a spoiled, drunken Wall Street trader. When he gets news that the father who walked out on him and is mother 25 years earlier is dead, he feels little. When he informs his mother, she gives him a locket that contains a small key adorned with a swastika. His life falls apart when his mother is murdered and he discovers that his father was really an undercover operative for the CIA. Now, with a CIA agent and a deadly Mossad agent, he travels to Europe to try to uncover the secret his parents and so many others were murdered over.

A breathtaking thriller taking place in modern times and during World War II. Guaranteed to keep even the pickiest reader enthralled.

Fast-paced and exciting. A thriller that covers the experiments of the Nazi's & SS and how they could have turned out effecting life today. The ending is predictable but leaves you wondering, could it be?

Flashbacks and present actions converge to provide a gut-wrenching thriller to keep the reader enthralled. Many of the main characters are walking wounded and being forced into situations that exacerbate their pain. The thrills come one after another as the action skips from country to country and to different times from the present to pre WWII to during WWII. Despite the violent encounters, the gore is kept to a minimum as Khara provides the right level of description to communicate without over-loading the reader. As in many mysteries, the revelations come slowly and contribute to a growing interest. Even after reading this book once, it is worth a re-read to appreciate all that it had to offer.

An excellent read. At first, the flash backs to different times and characters were confusing, but Khara cleverly brings all the strands together in an exciting climax. The author demonstrates how the powerful can easily manipulate the fanatical or obsessive for their own ends, even Hitler's Aryan ideals. Now eagerly awaiting a sequel.

If you think it was possible that the Nazi with the use of radiation created a superhuman then you'll enjoy this book. It follows the main protagonist as he tries to find out why his father abandoned he and his mother and what his father was doing and why people around him are being killed and is the imposing Mossad man following him friend or foe.

In the grand tradition of “The Odessa File” by Frederick Forsyth and “The Boys from Brazil” by Ira Levin comes “The Bleiberg Project” by David Khara which brings Hitler’s atrocities center stage to a new audience, the Millennials.

Quoting the back cover, “The Bleiberg Project” asks:

Are Hitler’s atrocities really over? For depressive Wall Street trader Jeremy Corbin, absolute truths become undeniable lies overnight. He finds out his long-lost father is dead and boards a plane to Zurich with a Nazi medallion in his pocket, a hot CIA bodyguard next to him, and a clearly dangerous Mossad agent on his tail. What was his father investigating? Why was his mother assassinated? Can the conspiracy be stopped?

I could not say more simply because if I reveal anything more about the plot, it will be a spoiler. So, let me just give you what I felt when I was reading the book.

For a Mystery/Thriller, it’s poignant and bittersweet. The lead character depressive Wall Street trader Jeremy Corbin is hurting. He is a damaged individual. For him to be whole again, he can only rely on himself. His absentee father is dead and his mother was murdered just the day before.

A flawed hero; in fact, Jeremy Corbin is an anti-hero. He actually reminds me of Jason Bourne “The Bourne Identity”, the book by Robert Ludlum, not the Jason Bourne created by Hollywood.

Whereas Jason Bourne is more physical than cerebral, Jeremy Corbin can topple the enemy with his head for numbers. And yes, both of them hurts, both of them can feel and run through a gamut of emotions.

Jeremy Corbin is a true heir to Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne. Because although Jeremy is very adept in using computers, tablets and smart phones; he relies in his analytical abilities to solve problems as much the same as the original Jason Bourne.

Perhaps, this is the reason why “The Bleiberg Project” is an instant sensation in France, winner of the Blue Moon Award for Best Thriller and with over 130,000 copies sold.

The Millennials have a new hero they can call their own – a geeky Wall Street trader who made millions of dollars in a single day by just understanding the market and without breaking the law. And best of all, he can kick some bootie if he needs to save his friend or the woman he loves. What more can you ask for?

This book is rated M for Mature due to violence and subject matter.

One sign of a good book is the inability to put it down. This book took less than a day to read because I kept coming back to see what happened to the characters. Initially, our protagonist Jeremy is unlikeable, a guy who appears to "have it all" but is bent on self destruction. As the story unfolds and both the reasons for his decline and finally his ability to move on changes the view. When needed, he shirks off his self-pity and rises to the occasion.
The most compelling and, oddly, empathetic character is a Mossad assassin with a dark secret that is entangled in the Bleiberg Project. This project, one of the pets of Heinrich Himmler in his quest for the Aryan superman is deeply disturbing. Most disturbing of all is the atrocities that are committed on the altar of science are perpetrated by a Jew whom Himmler hides in plain sight.
Back and forth the story weaves from WWII to 1985 to the present. It was quite early in the book when I suspected the link that our assassin had to Bleiberg but that did not diminish the power of the chase and the final showdown. By then our heroes number three with the addition of a female CIA agent who teams up with the two men figure out the mystery and put an end to the madness.
I was so invested in the characters that I was devastated by the resolution until I read the epilogue. That is another sign of a good book. A third sign is the wish that the story would continue. If you like a good mystery with lots of twists and turns, give this one a try. It is well worth the time.

Very Intense read that grabs you from the first page!

In an effort to expand my reading horizons I have been trying out translated fiction. So far it is has been kind of hit and miss. I recently read the French thriller The Bleiberg Project by David S. Khara and I can tell you it was a hit.

Maybe it was an easier transition as the main character is an American and partially set in the States before jetting around Europe. Or perhaps it is because it flashed back to a time that I often read it about - World War II Nazi Germany. Or maybe it is because it had the same flavor as a Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novel. Maybe it was all those things, but whatever it was I really enjoyed it.

Jay Novacek is the golden boy of the financial world, but he's on a path of self-destruction. People who have a life altering experience while the under the influence of alcohol either forsake all alcohol or drown their guilt. Jay was in the latter group. The notification of his long absent father's death sets Jay on a new course, one that may lead to his ultimate death. As death looms near, Jay realizes that may not be what he really wants.

What about the WWII Nazi Germany part? Readers are ushered into the past and a web of conspiracy that began before Hitler rose to power, perhaps what actually put Hitler into power. The conspiracy is much larger than the Third Reich and survived long past its fall.

The Bleiberg Project is a great suspense novel and if I hadn't known it was translated, I would have assumed it was an American or perhaps British author. There was a section that felt off, like the author may not have done enough research on how the CIA works or how a former Air Force officer may write. The tone of words left by Jay's Dad felt elementary. Other than that, the writing was great, the pace was just right for a suspense novel.

If you are a fan of Tom Clancy, then you will want to check out The Bleiberg Project by David S. Khara.

the comments are the same as fo the two other books of the series, they are fascinating, brilliant and amazing.

“The Bleiberg Project” was published in 2014 and was written by David Khara (http://www.dskhara.com). Mr. Khara has published 6 novels, three in the “Consortium” series. This is the first book in that series.

I would categorize this novel as ‘R’ as there are instances of Violence and Mature Language. This Thriller novel covers from the thirties as Hitler was starting to rise to power until current day. Most of the action is in Europe, but some is also in the US. The key characters are Jeremy Corbin, Jacqueline “Jackie” Walls and Eytan Morg.

Corbin is a wealthy wiz on wall street that is fighting a number of personal demons. He finds out that his father, who left he and his mother years ago, has died. To his surprise he finds that what he knew of his father was far from the truth, and now his father’s investigations are dragging him into a world wide conspiracy.

Walls is a pretty, petite CIA operative who is assigned to protect Corbin. They have hardly met before she is saving his life. He is immediately drawn to her. Based on information Corbin’s father left behind, he and Walls are soon headed to Europe to recover information left there for him.

Morg is a deadly Maossad agent, and has an unbelievable past. He is assigned to watch and protect Corbin. He follows them to Europe, but soon must reveal himself to save both Corbin and Walls. They manage to barely stay one step ahead of their adversaries, but there is a trail of bodies left behind.

This very much reminds me of something Alistair MacLean or Ian Fleming might have written. The plot was a little different and it kept me engaged with the story. I thought that the three main characters were interesting. I give this novel a 4.4 (rounded down to a 4) out of 5.

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Jeremy Novacek is a Wall Street trader and millionaire who is drinking his way to death. When his mother learns that his father has died, she gives him a key to a Swiss bank safe-deposit box. What is in this safe-deposit box that is so important? What does Jeremy learn? Someone is trying to kill him while others are working to keep Jeremy alive. Why is someone trying to kill him?

This is an excellent thriller. The writing is expertly done even though you can predict the ending. The thriller includes some romance and fun.

I enjoyed this thriller told through alternating chapters from the Nazi era to the present. It did take me a while to get interested in the book, I think because of the slow growth of interest in the characters. There are three main characters, the son of a independent CIA agent, a current CIA agent and an independent Israeli agent. I would have liked more character development for the villains. I finished The Bleiberg Project about 3 hours ago and have already started the next book, The Shiro Project.

This is the first book in the Consortium trilogy. The book begins in Stutthof Concentration Camp in 1942. An attempted assassination of Heinrich Himmler has failed. The story then jumps to present day Manhattan to a really bad morning for Jay Novacek (AKA Jeremy Corbin). He is a trader on Wall Street. He is hungover, a strange woman in his shower and he is late for work. He has trouble remembering yesterday. Memories from six months ago haunt him every day. On the day the stock market was crashing he became a millionaire but by the end of the day there was a horrible accident.

Military officers knock on his door to inform him of his father’s passing. He goes to the nursing home to tell his mother, Ann Novacek Corbin. Instead of crying she takes off her locket and hands it to him then tells him it is time for him to go. He arrives at work and discusses his father’s death with his boss and mentor, Bernard Dean. Dean tells Jay he has been working for the CIA for 30 years and has been watching over him. The world begins to unravel and he doesn’t know what his next move will be or where. The locket had a key to a Swiss bank account and this propels him on a journey. Jackie, a government agent and Eytan the giant accompany him.

The author has a way with words and weaves the past and the present seamlessly. This certainly was a thrilling book to read. I look forward to reading the next two books in the series. There are twists and turns and to keep the reader in suspense.

I thoroughly enjoyed this title. When I finished it, I requested the rest of this authors books. The background for this book is the Nazi experiments and follows to the present. I enjoyed how the author made these connections. Thank you I enjoyed and highly recommend!

Brilliant read, can't wait for the next. errific writing that kept me gripped.

stars A Rollicking Good Thriller Embedded in History, 17 July 2015 Jeremy Corbin is a highly-skilled Wall Street trader whose life is a series of either all-out work or all-out drinking, because he is trying to forget that he killed a four-month-old child when he was driving under the influence of alcohol.

However, Jeremy is shaken out of his pathetic self-pitying mode when his estranged father, who left some twenty years previously, dies. He is bequeathed a small box and a key embossed with a swastika. What ensues is a race against time to avoid a situation that literally threatens the world’s population.

He is aided and abetted firstly by CIA Agent Jackie Walls, and then by Eytan Morgenstern, ex-Mossad and the first guinea pig to survive the ministrations of Professor Bleiberg. Bleiberg, a member of the secret global society called The Consortium, had worked with the Nazis to further Marie Curie’s experiments with polonium and radium, exposing hundreds of children to radiation to propagate ‘Ubermensch,’ or ‘overhuman,’ i.e. someone with superhuman abilities. Eytan Morg was this, and since his escape from Bleiberg and the Nazis, has continually worked to seek out and execute the men responsible for the extermination of over six million Jews. He is tasked with protecting Jeremy and seeking out the truths that lie within the reaches of the box and key.

David Khara’s book is unusual in that not only does it swap from country to country and timeframe to timeframe, but Jeremy’s action is always in the first person and the present tense, compared to the rest of the book in the past tense. At first this appears to be rather clumsy and irritating, and yet, with time, as I got into this book, I found it to be cleverly underlining the central character of Jeremy Corbin.

What I fail to understand is why the three books in the Consortium series were not printed in chronological order. What sense does it make to publish the second, then the third and finally the first? Is it something to do with the books being translated into English? Incidentally, thanks must go to Simon John for his excellent translation.

However, this is a good book: a thriller and also a reminder to society of what must never, ever, be allowed to happen again. Indeed, at a time when a ninety-four-year-old former SS sergeant at Auschwitz has just been sentenced to four years in prison for three hundred thousand counts of accessory to murder, let us remember, and never forget history. – Sméagol

Rating: Four Stars.

After reading The Morgenstern Project, I jumped at the chance to read David Khara's other two Consortium novels. The first in the series, The Bleiberg project introduces the reader to Eytan Morgenstern, Mossad agent and Nazi hunter, and some of his backstory.

What if the Nazis had made more progress on their genetics research? And what if a few people still knew of it? Jeremy Corbin, a Wall Street trader, quickly learns that there is much more to his father's disapperance and death than what he thought, when he receives a key with a swastika on it. With the help of his CIA bodyguard and Morgenstern himself, Jeremy must track down the secret behind his father's death.

The first in the series does not disappoint either. Had I read this first, I still would have needed to read the second and third in the series. The mystery is well writtten and the flashbacks between the present day Jeremy story, Eytan's past, and the Nazi atrocities help bring the timeline together perfectly. 5 stars!

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. It was a great book. A unique storyline and lots of action to keep me engrossed. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller from beginning to end! The plot is amazin and moves at a swift pace keeping the reader guessing while turning the pages