Q. You are a big fan of thrillers. How do you think reading widely in this genre has benefitted your own writing? YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. The Führer’s Prophecy is the second part of The Reich Trilogy, following bestselling thriller The Counterfeit Candidate. With this explosive sequel, author Brian Klein has cemented his position as Britain’s most exciting thriller writer.

There are plenty of twists and turns and some unexpected moments, equally, it is not without its cliffhanger chapter endings, it is a punchy read, but as a thriller for me it worked, pure escapist entertainment, definitely a rollercoaster of a read, and your’e never quite sure as to what the outcome will be. Dogged police officers Nicholas Vargas of the Buenos Aires Police Department and Troy Hembury, a lieutenant of the LA Police Department, had joined forces to stop Franklin and had, seemingly, closed the case with the apparent death of the disgraced Republican presidential candidate. For Vargas, stopping Franklin is as much personal as professional. He is still reeling from the loss of his Jewish wife 13 years before, whose grandfather had been one of the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee Nazi Germany. April 2022: As the world emerges from the Covid pandemic, an encrypted zoom call involving five participants, based across four continents, approves a plan that could have unimaginable consequences for the State of Israel. Chief Inspector Nicolas Vargas of the Buenos Aires Police Department and Lieutenant Troy Hembury of the LAPD join forces with Lea Katz, an elite Mossad agent, in a race against time to try and prevent the unthinkable consequences of Operation Gesamtkunstwerk.And in an example of Klein’s clever blending of fact and fiction we see – in tragic detail – the origins of Franklin’s super drug, with Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, the ‘Angel of Death’, conducting cruel experiments on female inmates of dreaded concentration camp Auschwitz. The two men were inside Hitler’s vast pine-panelled study listening to the broadcast. Bormann was sitting in a brown leather armchair close to the radio, while the Führer paced the room spouting profanities every time his fellow Nazi threw him another nugget of information. Q. How did writing The Führer's Prophecy differ to writing The Counterfeit Candidate? Was it easier, or perhaps more challenging in certain ways? Q. Was it your own love of thrillers that led you to writing a thriller, or did the story come into your head and directed you to the genre?

As the book moves along, the police seem to find themselves one step behind, this just heightens the tension and drama, the ending is in someways is different from the norm as to the outcome, To some degree it poses some interesting (if only) questionsThe fact that this actually happened makes it all the more distressing and adds extra force to the diabolic nature of Hitler’s fictional descendant.

January 30th, 1939: Adolf Hitler makes an infamous speech at the Reichstag, threatening “the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”. This vile public proclamation is seized upon by his fanatical supporters who christen it “The Führer’s Prophecy”.

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The Führer was incandescent with rage. Adolf Hitler’s piercing blue eyes burned with fury as he let rip at Martin Bormann. The two notorious Nazis the world believed had died in Berlin were very much alive and mortified as they listened to the world news on a Zenith Console Radio Phonograph, which was in imminent danger of being destroyed by the Führer’s flailing arms. A. Maybe it’s because people love a good ‘What If? conspiracy theory and Hitler is such a huge, reviled character in history, readers are fascinated by him.