The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

· Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Michael Langan
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An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figures, written as an action-packed historical biography For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police, and the world's journalists. In this rigorously researched factual novel-drawn almost entirely from historical documents-Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through these years of flight. This chilling novel situates the listener in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century.

About the author

Olivier Guez is the author of several books, including L'Impossible retour: A History of Jews in Germany since 1945, Praise of Dodging, and The Revolutions of Jacques Koskas. In 2016, he received the German Best Screenplay Award for the film Fritz Bauer, A German Hero.

As the middle of six children, Michael Langan quickly carved out his space in the group; he was the storyteller. Out in the real world, he would work in office and administration roles until he quit his job in 2020, deciding to become a full-time voice-over artist and a background artist in film and television productions.

Georgia de Chamberet is a committee member of English PEN's Writers in Translation programme. As an editor at Quartet Books in the 1990s, she published contemporary writers Tahar Ben Jelloun, Annie Ernaux, Juan Carlos Onetti, Daniel Pennac, and Simon Leys amongst others.

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