Stanley Pottinger (1940–2024)

The Last Nazi is a sometimes silly, often melodramatic, and not remotely believable tale of a hunt for an old Nazi. Adalwolf, who once assisted Dr. Mengele, is now in his seventies, and is attempting to create a doomsday virus. I'm not sure how this person would have been able to keep up with scientific development and have been able to get the resources to pull of such a thing, but why sweat the details since this author hasn't. There was not a whole lot to like about this novel, other than show more some suspense and plot turns, but it would not be enough to recommend reading this. I would stay away from the last Nazi.
Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity show less

This was a pretty good a read.

If you're a stickler for realism then the story line is a bit of a stretch, however if you can step back and enjoy it for what it is, then it's a pretty good mystery / investigation / nazi story.

The very basic plot is that an offsider of Dr Mengele of Auschwitz is fleeing American law enforcement, whilst also finishing Nazi Germany's work and exterminate all Jews.

There's a few unforeseen twists/plot developments and overall it's a pretty entertaining read.

I liked this thriller about the past coming back to life. I especially liked Melissa gradually learning who Adalwolf is and how strong she could be.

This book starts off with three seperate story lines. Differrent people, differrent times and nothing to tie them together. But each story line starts off strong. One is about a young boy living in the south in the 1960's. He watches as his fathered is lynched by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Then the next story line takes us to 1929, where a young girl in New Orleans falls in love with her part black piano teacher. To our final story, that brings us back to the great New York blackout of 1977, show more where a 11 year white boy watches his father beaten to death by a black man wielding a baseball bat.

The book then jumps to the present. Where we meet our New York boy, now a NYPD Detective named Nat Hennessey. Nat is in love with Camilla, who is the grand daughter of the young girl from New Orleans and the piano teacher. And of course the young boy who watched the KKK kill his father, is now a brilliant neursurgeon.

A couple days before Nat and Camilla are to be married, Nat lets a killer go, though he should have arrested him. They deal he made is that the criminal would kill the man that killed Nats father. Instead this leads to the man who killed Nat's father shooting Camilla in the head.

Now we go to our brilliant neurosurgeon, Cush Walker, he was once Camillia's lover. And he is the only one who can save her life by using new technology he has developed. And about this time in the book they discover Camillia is part black. So these two men, who's prejudices are formed by their father's death, must work together to save her.

There seem to be more plot twist then would be necessary in any book. The book also exploits racial discord in every plot line. Both male characters are written well and come across as real. Not perfect, but well filled out charcters. The woman doesn't know her own mind and is willing to drop everything in a moments notice that she has developed because of what she hs learned about her grandmother. I thik Nat would have been better off without her in the end.

Unlike most books, that I read in a day or two..this took me a week to plow through. And I would not read it again. But, it wold make a good action movie for today's audiences. show less