The Boys from Brazil

I read this book when I was 16 for a summer reading project I was doing with the local library. This book definitely made me think about possible conspiracy theories surrounding Hitler, the Nazis and the Allies during WW2. I thought this book was a great work of fiction and it really was very engrossing. I would definitely read this book a second time.

So, first a disclosure: I read this book only due its referencing in Archer (the cartoon series, from which my avatar picture was sourced).

In Archer - Krieger, also known as Dr. Krieger, is a main character, and was the head of the ISIS Applied Research Department (up until the end of Season 4.). He goes by the title of Doctor and performs many activities that require a medical degree; however, he is neither a medical doctor nor “the other kind” (“technically”). He is trilingual as he speaks fluent English, German, and Portuguese.

Krieger was raised by a former Nazi scientist who fled with him to Brazil, where they lived until Krieger was 15, when his pet Dobermans killed the man he believed to be his father - this in reference to the book “The Boys From Brazil”. It is implied that Malory Archer somehow set these events in motion as he remembers her arranging for him to be brought to ISIS afterwards. Krieger studied and became accomplished in a variety of different sciences including bionics, electronics, neuroscience, chemistry, biotechnology, surgery, and robotics, but, despite this, never earned a formal doctorate degree of any kind which is sometimes evident in his conversations where people ask if he is a doctor.

Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed.