The Counterfeit Candidate
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Berlin, 30 April, 1945
As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn City, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun take their own lives. Their bodies are burned and buried in the Reich Chancellery garden, above the Führer's bunker.
Buenos Aires, 9 January, 2012
Three audacious thieves carry out the biggest safe depository heist in Argentine history, escaping with more than one hundred million dollars' worth of valuables. Within hours, an encrypted phone call to America triggers a blood-soaked manhunt as the thieves are tracked down, systematically tortured, then murdered.
San Francisco, 18 January, 2012
Senator John Franklin, hailed as the 'Great Unifier', secures the Republican Presidential nomination and seems destined for the Oval Office. Despite the sixty-seven year interval and a span of thirteen thousand miles, these events are indelibly linked.
Chief Inspector Nicolas Vargas of the Buenos Aires Police Department and Lieutenant Troy Hembury of the LAPD are sucked into a dark political conspiracy concealing an incredible historical truth stretching from the infamous Berlin bunker to Buenos Aires and to Washington, which threatens the very heart and soul of American democracy.
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TV director Klein debuts with an intriguing series launch that blends police procedural and alternate history. An audacious bank robbery in Buenos Aires nets the thieves hundreds of millions of dollars, but a weathered briefcase nabbed from a safety deposit box holds the greatest treasure. The deposit box belongs to Richard Franklin, CEO of one of the world's wealthiest drug companies, whose son, California senator John Franklin, is the Republican candidate and front-runner in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Richard's employee, ex-mercenary Matias Paz, tracks down and kills the thieves one by one in pursuit of the briefcase, which once belonged to Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's personal secretary. Chief Insp. Nicolas Vargas of the Buenos Aires Police Department finds the briefcase first and discovers its dark secrets: irrefutable proof that Hitler not only survived WWII, but the soon-to-be-elected president of the United States is his grandson, and it's all part of a Nazi plot decades in the making. Klein takes a fascinating what-if scenario familiar from Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and Irving Wallace's The Seventh Secret and brings it to vivid life with slimy villains and an investigator worth rooting for. Readers will look forward to the next installment.
