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The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

A Novel

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An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography
For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists.

In this rigorously researched factual novel—drawn almost entirely from historical documents—Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through these years of flight.

This chilling novel situates the listener in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 23, 2022
      Journalist Guez makes his English-language debut with a staid portrait of a monstrous man. After WWII, Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz, secures a series of false identities and eventually relocates from rural Bavaria to South America in 1949. For the next 30 years, he hides out in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, all while ingratiating himself with powerful figures including Adolf Eichmann and Juan Perón. As time passes and the world acknowledges more of the horrors of the Holocaust, Israeli Mossad agents and everyday people are more and more consumed by the hunt for Mengele, who, like many concentration camp administrators and high-ranking Nazis, has avoided any punishment for his role in crimes against humanity. The tone changes as the years pass: there are moments of cold-blooded terror, scenes re-created from eyewitness accounts at Auschwitz and afterward, as well as understated passages involving Josef in hiding. Guez hews closely to the historical record, re-creating much of Mengele’s life from the letters, journals, and biographies of his subject and those around him, but the narrative is remarkably humdrum and slack. This is more for history buffs than fiction fans.

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