Thanks to a team of unscrupulous boffins at his disposal, he has created a super drug that when ingested by women renders them infertile. Brian Klein counts his former Top Gear colleague Jeremy Clarkson among his army of fans. The two are pictured here at the book launch for The Counterfeit Candidate. I have always been fascinated by conspiracy theories. JFK’s assassination, the moon landings, Princess Diana’s car crash, all come to mind. But they don’t come much bigger or more controversial, than the apparent suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in the Fuhrer’s notorious bunker in war-torn Berlin on 30th April 1945. It’s a highly contentious event that has generated countless books, articles and documentaries and the truth is that, even today, views differ on what really happened. As a student, I studied Hitler and the rise and fall of The Third Reich at Queen Mary College, where I completed a degree in History and Modern Politics. I’ve always had a gut feeling that Hitler wasn’t the kind of man to take his own life, but then again, there is a great deal of compelling evidence, and eye-witness testimony, to suggest he did. However, for the purposes of writing The Counterfeit Candidate, I went with my gut. I couldn’t help wondering, “What if….”

This cookie is used to store the ContentSquare's user identifier ID. This is a persistent cookie and expires after 13 months.I named the farmhouse which became Hitler’s new base, ‘El Blondie,” as I liked the conceit that the name of the Fuhrer’s new home would be a permanent memorial to his beloved dog, who he had left behind in the bunker. A creature he loved far more than any human.

Q. There is a TV adaptation of your first novel, The Counterfeit Candidate , currently in the works. How does this make you feel, and would you recommend people read your novel before watching the show, or vice versa? This he now plans to release into Israel’s water supply so that the Jewish race will, in effect, be wiped out over the course of a few generations.But in a spectacular scene, we see him busted out in a daring helicopter raid and taken directly to Franklin’s superyacht so the plan can be hatched.