THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL

by Ira Levin ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 8, 1976

Rosemary's baby was bad enough; just think of 94 babies cloned from Hitler's cells by genetic molecular reproduction--the evil conception(s) of a man called Mengele who once ran Auschwitz and invented this way to summon up a Fourth Reich. In the last fourteen years these infants have been reared in all parts of the world by nondescript civil servants who are now about to reach the age of 65. Mengele has something in mind for them--an SS checkout in lieu of a check--they're to be disposed of by ""the boys from Brazil,"" six auxiliary killers. But the plan has been taped and passed on to an old Nazi headhunter, Jakov liebermann, who realizes the significance of what the Jewish establishment won't touch even after a number of eliminations have taken place. At the end there's that inevitable confrontation between Mengele and Liebermann in the house of the next victim along with some Dobermans and a youngster who when last seen is on his way toward that second coming. . . . This won't endure in the permanent domain along with Rosemary's Baby or A Kiss Before Dying, but it is the season's first mind-and-eye-stopping entertainment and you'll read it along with 50,000 others (first printing) as it streaks along from Heil to Shalom to Heil Heil.

Pub Date: March 8, 1976

ISBN: 1605981303

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1976

Categories: FICTION