The Counterfeit Candidate

<b>What if Hitler survivedand his acolytes infiltrated the heart of American democracy? In this pulse-pounding opening to Brian Klein's <i>Last Reich Trilogy</i>, two detectives uncover a conspiracy stretching from Nazi bunkers to Buenos Aires bank vaults to the U.S. presidential campaign trailwhere every secret comes at the cost of another corpse. </b><BR><BR>April 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are reported dead in Berlin. But rumors persist. No bodies were ever found. <BR> <BR> 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. <BR> <BR> San Francisco, 2012: Senator John Franklin, the charismatic ';Great Unifier,' secures the Republican presidential nominationdestined for the White Housebut a blood-soaked trail suggests that his rise may be linked to the Buenos Aires murders and the secrets of 1945 Berlin. <BR> <BR> Chief Inspector Nicols 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. <BR> <BR> Fast-paced, cinematic, and spanning the globe,<i> The Counterfeit Candidate</i> 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.

ISBN-13: 9798895151402