The Disappearance of Josef Mengele : A Novel

Author: Guez, Olivier, Chamberet, Georgia de

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 9 August 2022 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Verso Fiction' series.

Paperback | 224 pages
129 x 197 x 19 | 198g

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 In this rigorusly researched factual novel-drawn almost entirely from historical documents-Olivier Guez traces Mengele's footsteps through these years of flight.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 reader in a literary manhunt on the trail of one of the most elusive and evil figures of the twentieth century.

Selected as one of The 50 best books of 2022 by The Telegraph