The Führer's Prophecy (The Reich Trilogy)

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The Führer’s Prophecy is the hotly anticipated sequel to one of 2021’s bestselling thrillers, The Counterfeit Candidate.

In one particular encounter, the couple are guests of honour at Hitler’s 60th birthday party, where Maria Callas makes a cameo appearance singing an aria from the Fuhrer’s favourite Wagner opera, Rienzi. For Vargas, stopping Franklin is as much personal as professional. He is still reeling from the loss of his Jewish wife 13 years before, whose grandfather had been one of the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee Nazi Germany. What if, in the present day, Republican Senator John Franklin, an American born citizen on the verge of securing the Presidency, was, in reality, Adolf Hitler’s grandson. A man, groomed from birth by his family to become the most powerful leader in the world. Q. There is a TV adaptation of your first novel, The Counterfeit Candidate , currently in the works. How does this make you feel, and would you recommend people read your novel before watching the show, or vice versa? But in a spectacular scene, we see him busted out in a daring helicopter raid and taken directly to Franklin’s superyacht so the plan can be hatched.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. The novel is set a decade on from the events of The Counterfeit Candidate, which saw Hitler’s grandson, John Franklin, exposed as a modern-day Nazi mastermind just before he reached his goal: the White House. New Relic uses this cookie to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. Q. When you have completed The Reich Trilogy, will you continue to write exclusively in the thriller genre, or are you tempted to try another genre? Brian Klein counts his former Top Gear colleague Jeremy Clarkson among his army of fans. The two are pictured here at the book launch for The Counterfeit Candidate.

The fact that this actually happened makes it all the more distressing and adds extra force to the diabolic nature of Hitler’s fictional descendant. They are the definitive due you will love to hate, and you’ll be rooting for their comeuppance while cheering on Vargas and Hembury every step of the way. Later in the story, once Hitler is living In Argentina, we see him interact with two fellow notorious Nazis who we know, really did escape to Patagonia, Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann. One of the chapters covers the audacious abduction of Eichmann by the Israeli secret service, Mossad, in 1960, which was a global news event at the time. In my story, Hitler tries in vain to help Eichmann avoid capture but to no avail.

Thanks to a team of unscrupulous boffins at his disposal, he has created a super drug that when ingested by women renders them infertile. This he now plans to release into Israel’s water supply so that the Jewish race will, in effect, be wiped out over the course of a few generations. Martin Bormann is a key figure in the book and the arch manipulator behind the masterplan to land Hitler’s grandson in the White House. I have always been fascinated by conspiracy theories. JFK’s assassination, the moon landings, Princess Diana’s car crash, all come to mind. But they don’t come much bigger or more controversial, than the apparent suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in the Fuhrer’s notorious bunker in war-torn Berlin on 30th April 1945. It’s a highly contentious event that has generated countless books, articles and documentaries and the truth is that, even today, views differ on what really happened. And in an example of Klein’s clever blending of fact and fiction we see – in tragic detail – the origins of Franklin’s super drug, with Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’, conducting cruel experiments on female inmates of dreaded concentration camp Auschwitz.

Now, by popular demand, Klein has written a sequel, The Führer’s Prophecy, which forms the second part of the newly labelled ‘Reich Trilogy’, and which is just as, if not more, entertaining than the original entry. A. Maybe it’s because people love a good ‘What If? conspiracy theory and Hitler is such a huge, reviled character in history, readers are fascinated by him. These sections uncover the foundations of the main story, where we learn of Hitler’s speech at the Reichstag in January 1939 announcing his ambition to wipe out the Jewish people, which came to be known as ‘The Führer’s Prophecy’. It’s no spoiler to reveal that rumours of Franklin’s death have been greatly exaggerated and, in fact, he has been in hiding ever since his fall, biding his time until the moment to strike again arose.Hembury, meanwhile, is past his prime but ready for one last mission alongside his buddy to finish what they started with Franklin. YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. The idea of Hitler and Bormann creating and building one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, seemed plausible to me. It would provide them with a huge multinational vehicle, perfect for laundering the vast sums of money they had taken out of Germany. It would also give them a platform of power and respectability for Hitler’s son, enabling him to set up a new home in the United States, where he could father an heir, who could go on to become a world leader, achieving the ultimate prize of the Presidency.