The Counterfeit Candidate (The Reich Trilogy)

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Mr Portobello Book Blog takes over today with his review of The Counterfeit Candidate by Brian Klein. Also, you always have a new plethora of new characters show up for a few pages only to be discarded and forgotten as quickly as they show up, which leaves the reader wondering what was the point of introducing them at length if they have zero impact? A wonderful and entertaining narrative which mixes up European history with contemporary America and gives the reader a wonderful experience. I decided I would try flesh out my idea of the safe deposit robbery, which I knew would be a key element of the story. The location I chose for their new life, El Calafate in the province of Santa Cruz, in Patagonia, is a real town.

Three audacious thieves carry out the biggest safe depository heist in Argentine history, escaping with more than one hundred million dollars’ worth of valuables. This novel relies so much on its character's stupidity and incompetence to further the plot, it becomes laughable and tiresome). The Counterfeit Candidate is an electrifying, alternate-history, political-crime thriller set in North and South America. I'm guessing it was set in 2012 to avoid any potential lawsuits of parallels with Donald Trump had it been set in 2016. He has also directed two feature-length films for BBC Worldwide and five entertainment specials for Netflix.Brian Klein is a multi-award winning Television Director, with over twenty-five years’ experience in the industry.

Nicolas Vargas of the Buenos Aries Police Department is investigating the robberies but when a string of gruesome murders take place, he soon realises they are connected. I've read at least 2 books (The Seventh Secret and Fatherland) which involved Hitler not dying in 1945. Berlin, 30th April, 1945As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn City, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun take their own lives.Robert Ludlum did it best with "The Holcroft Covenant", as has Robert Harris in his masterpiece "Fatherland". In comes police detective Vargas who conveniently has a good friend Hembury who's a cop in San Francisco.

I was part of the core team that produced twenty-two series of the controversial car show that became the biggest TV phenomena in the world, with 350 million weekly viewers in 120 countries. Quite Interesting fact: amongst Martin Bormann's children was his eldest son, also named Martin, who became a well-known theologian and toured Germany, speaking about the horrors of the Third Reich. Their plan includes splitting the boxes between them, each hiding their stash and not touching them for another year so as not to bring suspicion on themselves. The one female character who has more than a couple of scenes is described as having Angelina Jolie lips. Can the men get away with the biggest heist in Argentinian history or will the finders get to them first?Novels such as SS-GB and Fatherland admittedly set the bar very high but there's no excuse for using clichés whenever the opportunity presents, nor for the number of murders included. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Counterfeit Candidate" may have a great premise, but it's ruined completely by a horrendous writing style and lack of attention to details. Starting a family to ensure the continuity of the bloodline, they invest millions from their Nazi spoils to fund a pharma company—the Franklin Pharmaceutical Corporation in Buenos Aires—that will generate legal wealth, power and influence over the coming decades.

Unbeknownst to them, the contents of one of the safety deposit boxes they steal means a great deal to Richard Franklin, the father of Senator John Franklin. The novel is made of very short chapters which go back and forth between 1945 and 2012, 2 pivotal points on the global scale as the race for presidential candidacy takes on a whole new mean based on what is thought to have happened in Hitler's bunker. Short, pacey chapters always ending with a cliff hanger, forcing the reader to keep turning the page, is another vital element. The story shows its hand pretty early on, so the element of surprise is lost to some extent and I didn't really care for the scenes of Hitler and Braun setting up home in Buenos Aires, I think the reader could have put this together without those passages.This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. But they don’t come much bigger or more controversial, than the apparent suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in the Führer ’s notorious bunker in war-torn Berlin on 30 th April 1945. This is an intriguing story and one of the few books that has had me turning pages until the candle guttered. But when every single character- both historical and fictional, act, talk and behave exactly the same, then it's no wonder they fall feel forgettable and irrelevant.