The addictive, punchy plot then moves to the Middle East and Iran, where we meet more ruthless murderous from The Taliban, who are only too willing to join the cause against their bitter Israeli enemy.

The Führer believes that his past prophecy in the Reichstag is being confirmed, that if Jewry succeeded in again provoking a world war, it would end with the annihilation of the Jews. It is coming to pass in these weeks and months with an almost eerily graceful certainty. In the East, the Jews are paying for it. In Germany, they have already in part paid for it, and in the future they will have to pay still more." [81]

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? Herf argues that the reference to "extermination" was unambiguous because the German language has words for "impoverishment, discrimination, deportation, and illness", although Goebbels' "formulations left enough ambiguity and absence of detail to promote plausible deniability among an indifferent or incredulous mass audience". [100] Norman Domeier wrote that the article "made public and legitimized" the ongoing Nazi murder of the European Jews. [46] Historian Nicholas Stargardt states that Goebbels "came close to stating bluntly that the regime’s policy was to kill the Jews". [106] Winkler writes that those who heard about the article "learned that masses of Jews were being killed in the east", [102] and that the meaning "was impossible to misunderstand or ignore". [107] According to Longerich, the article was a "sufficiently clear answer" regarding the fate of Jews deported from Germany. [98] In another nod to the past, we come to learn where the book’s intriguing title originated, referring to Hitler’s public call for the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”.

Without giving anything away, the final scenes – where the Israeli national intelligence agency Mossad shoot it out with the Taliban – will have you jumping out of your seat in excitement, and it ends on a killer cliff-hanger that will have you at the front of the queue when the third and final instalment of Klein’s The Reich Trilogy is released.This cookie is used to store the ContentSquare's user identifier ID. This is a persistent cookie and expires after 13 months. A. My favourite thrillers have great stories and plot twists but are always believable as well as having strong characters. A. Keep the story believable – constantly look for a way to surprise the reader with unforeseen twists and tell a great story! Not one word is wasted in this thrilling tale which brings everything to the stage – plots and double plots, bullet-drenched battles, torture, and murder.

A. However hateful the subjects maybe, I try to portray them as three-dimensional, believable characters who are credible.None of the Führer’s prophetic words has come so inevitably true as his prediction that if Jewry succeeded in provoking a second world war, the result would be not the destruction of the Aryan race, rather the wiping out of the Jewish race. This process is of vast importance, and will have unforeseeable consequences that will take time. But it cannot be halted. [57] [99] The historical guilt of world Jewry for the outbreak and expansion of this war has been so extensively demonstrated that there is no need to waste any more words on it. The Jews wanted their war, and now they have it [96] ... At present we are experiencing the realization of this prophecy and so the Jews are meeting with a fate that may be harsh but is also more than deserved. In this case pity or regret is completely inappropriate. [98] In unleashing this war, world Jewry completely misjudged the forces at its disposal. Now it is suffering a gradual process of extermination that it had intended for us and that it would have unleashed against us without hesitation if it had the power to do so. It is now perishing as a result of its own law: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth... In this historical dispute every Jew is our enemy, whether he vegetates in a Polish ghetto or scrapes out his parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg or blows war trumpets in New York or Washington. Owing to their birth and race, all Jews belong to an international conspiracy against National Socialist Germany. They wish for its defeat and annihilation and do everything in their power to help to bring it about. [96] Thriller author Brian Klein has a host of celebrity fans including former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who is seen here with him at the launch event for the first novel in The Reich Trilogy, The Counterfeit Candidate.