What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Eagles Fly
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SOLVED. Adult Thriller. Nazi plot to take over world, well after WW2. American man's father started successful electronics firm. Father & other Nazi survivor businessmen (12-13) form secret worldwide committee. Read 1996-2001; from 1970's-1990's? [s]
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Is it clear the father is secretly a Nazi from the beginning of the book?
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In a Parisian cafÉ, an American surgeon recognizes the man who killed his father 30 years earlier and attacks him in a burst of uncontrollable passion -- plunging himself into a conspiracy to bring the West once again under the wing of the Third Reich. Though his father's killer gets away, Dr. Paul Osborn soon tracks him down and identifies him as Albert Merriman, a career criminal supposedly dead since 1967. Paul plans to eliminate Merriman after forcing him to tell why he killed George Osborn. But a violent twist leaves him with nothing but another name: Erwin Scholl, who hired Merriman to kill four men including Osborn Sr. Enter the American bulldog Det. William McVey, who's helping Interpol investigate the baffling decapitation of seven victims who show evidence of being kept in a cryogenic freezer, and who's naturally interested in the American surgeon who was spotted in London just a few blocks from the latest murder. As Paul holes up with his well-connected new lover, Vera Monneray, and McVey tries to figure out why anybody would want to cool a corpse down near absolute zero, Swiss stroke victim Elton Lybarger heads back home with his New Mexico physical therapist Joanna Marsh -- who has no idea of the key roles Lybarger and his assistant Pascal Von Hoiden will play in a plot whose like you haven't seen since The Boys from Brazil.
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And have you ruled out The Boys from Brazil featuring Dr. Josef Mengele?
Last Supper - It's not clear the father is a secret nazi, but the son isn't a spy of any sort. I want to say he's a reporter, but I'm very vague on that. The Day After Tomorrow - I read both this description and the one on Wikipedia. It doesn't sound familiar at all, and I'm sure it's not the book I'm looking for.
The Boys From Brazil - I've actually read that, and it's not the book I'm looking for.
Thank you for your help.
Just to rule it out, it will not be Vaterland, but as there are some similar ideas there, maybe a list with the book might be of help.
I've read Fatherland before and you're right, it's not it, but I did look through the "Readers Also Enjoyed". No luck. Really, a better comparison would be to The Odessa File. That's also not in, but it's similar, with a Nazi remnant organization still seeking power many years after the war. I've looked through the associated lists with that one too. No luck. Thanks for your help.
Interesting, I read the Odessa File some 20-30 years ago. Will follow this quest to see if the book might be one for my TBR-pile.
Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles? I don't know if that's it, but Spandau Phoenix was a fantastic read.
Sounds similar to The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum.
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The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum for Phil's suggestion.
Definitely not Spandau Phoenix. 90%sure it's not the Ludlum, but I'll take a look.
It's not The Holcroft Covenant, but the basic theme - Dad was a Nazi and has unsavory friends pushing for a Fourth Reich - is the same. Reviews of it may mention the book you are looking for.
The Wind Chill Factor by Thomas Gifford? From the reviews it looks like it's the grandfather who was Nazi/Nazi sympathizer, but just in case.
Ok. Honestly, I don't thin this it, but I have ordered it from the library and will update when I get it. As always, thanks for the help.
I read the wind chill factor, and it's not it. Thanks for the suggestion.
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The Apocalypse Watch by Robert Ludlum? Here's the Google Books preview - https://books.google.com/books?id=1AC... There are different cover images.
http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch > Keywords: nazi world domination | 1970-2002? | Not juvenile | Fiction | Book | English
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Patnel wrote: "English-language, adult novel. Protagonist is a grown man, American, who learns that his father, who started a successful electronics firm after WW2, is secretly an unreconstructed German Nazi, see..."It could be the Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum. Secret Nazi -era organization headed by the son of a nazi, primed to take over the world. The main protagonist, who is an investment banker finds out that his father is part of this organization.
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https://books.google.com/books?id=PZC...
- There are different cover images.
Wikipedia's plot summary - with Spoilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sig...
Thank you, but that's not it. Ludlum has come up a few times before, so I read some of his books and descriptions of the rest, and none of them fit. Specifically as to Sigma (I read the description and skimmed through the text), this is an organization of ex-Nazis and other assorted powerful people, but the whole Nazi thing is on the backburner. The book I'm looking for, the bad guys are explicitly committed Nazis in the present day. I remember a scene where one of the leaders talks about how hard it is to get young people as recruits as they will never be able to find a leader as inspiring as Hitler. Like, tripling-down on Naziness. The current plan, as I recall, is to respond to some manufactured global crisis with all of the Ex-Nazis being appointed by the UN to a World Security Council-type organization, and take over from there. The search continues. Thank you.
At this point, I would take suggestions of authors who wrote airport books in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and I'll just look through all their books. Anyone on that?Thanks
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Patnel, one option is to create a new thread in the "Suggest books for me" folder because the new request wouldn't be for one specific book.
How about Eagles Fly?The VJ Books site's description:
Richard Kelsey trusted his father, the man who put him through medical school, and then gave him his own private clinic.
Then elderly Kelsey brought his son a special patient, a patient programmed and waiting the code word: Eagles Fly.
Richard Kelsey's world was turned upside-down. Now, he had to fight Odessa--in the person of his father!
From "The Washington Post":
"Eagles Fly" are the code words used to activate a brainwashed fascist flunky who has been substituted for the vice president and then promoted via assassination to the Oval Office. His task is to initiate a Nazi-controlled world government convened under U.N. auspices.
(it was the 4th result in Google Books search for Father electronics firm subject:fiction)
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- https://books.google.com/books?id=V0b...Quotes from the book:
- There are different cover images.
- ... twelve old men - former highranking SS officers who are outstanding citizens of a half dozen countries. Each of these men has at his command anywhere from a few dozen men to as many as five hundred or one thousand loyal troops.
- "These twelve men represent the known Odessa leadership."
- ... father was a part of some insane plot to take over the world.
- ... father's electronics firm.
- ... electronics firm from a small beginning in a rented garage to its present level just behind Texas Instruments with assembly plants in four cities and the home office and research center in Chicago. During the bombing of Berlin...
I'm stunned, but this it. Thank you so much!I got the digital copy and scanned through it, and this is definitely the book I've been looking for.
I have looked for this book by searching for "Fourth Reich" and then the other keywords on so many platforms that I have to assume I am now on some kind of watch list. Come to find, "Fourth Reich" doesn't even appear in this book. Guess I should have left that out and I would have found this years ago.
Also, this is listed on goodreads as being part of the "Wallace Mahoney" series? That character doesn't appear in this book.
I'm really knocked out here. Can't believe I finally have an answer. Thank you!
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Eagles Fly (book 2) of the Wallace Mahoney series by Sean Flannery - Ayshe's find.
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EDIT: Books that are not the book I'm looking for:
The Last Supper by Charles McCarry Summary & Study Guide
The Day After Tomorrow
The Odessa File(or any other Frederick Forsyth book)
The Boys from Brazil
Fatherland
Spandau Phoenix
The Holcroft Covenant (or any other Robert Ludlum)
The Aquitaine Progression
The Apocalypse Watch
The Sigma Protocol
The Wind Chill Factor(or it's sequel)
The Strasbourg Legacy
The Bormann Receipt
The Quiller Memorandum
The Croesus Conspiracy
Hour of the Assassins: A Novel
The Goering Testament
The Valhalla Exchange
The Watchdogs of Abaddon
The Axmann Agenda
Brandenburg
The Jericho Commandment
Any book by Ken Follett
Any book by Desmond Bagley
XPD by Len Deighton
PARROT MAN by Robert Middlemiss
A frenzy of merchantmen by Brian Callison
Canceled Accounts by Harris Greene
The Herzog Affair by Robert Derek Steeley
The Front Man by Maurice Sellar
Goldengirl by Peter Lear
The Führer Seed by Gus Weil
The werewolf trace by John Gardner
Red Swastika by Martin Gross
Hour of the Assassins: A Novel by Andrew Kaplan
The Watchdogs of Abaddon by Ib Melchior
Any books by Richard Rohmer