The Counterfeit Candidate
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 19 may 2026
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- $149.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $149.00
Descripción editorial
What if Hitler survived—and his acolytes infiltrated the heart of American democracy? In this pulse-pounding opening to Brian Klein's Last Reich Trilogy, two detectives uncover a conspiracy stretching from Nazi bunkers to Buenos Aires bank vaults to the U.S. presidential campaign trail—where every secret comes at the cost of another corpse.
April 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are reported dead in Berlin. But rumors persist. No bodies were ever found.
Buenos Aires, 2012: Three thieves tunnel into a vault and unknowingly steal a briefcase that conceals a secret stretching back to the Third Reich. Within hours, they are hunted down, tortured, and murdered.
San Francisco, 2012: Senator John Franklin, the charismatic "Great Unifier," secures the Republican presidential nomination—destined for the White House—but a blood-soaked trail suggests that his rise may be linked to the Buenos Aires murders and the secrets of 1945 Berlin.
Chief Inspector Nicolás Vargas of the Buenos Aires police and LAPD Lieutenant Troy Hembury find themselves entangled in a transcontinental conspiracy that connects stolen Nazi secrets to the highest levels of American politics.
Fast-paced, cinematic, and spanning the globe, The Counterfeit Candidate is a masterful thriller that blends crime, political intrigue, and alternative history into a propulsive page-turner where nothing is what it seems and democracy itself hangs by a thread.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
