The Boys from Brazil tells the fictional story of an ex-Nazi, Dr Joseph Mengele. He plans to produce ninety-four clones of Adolf Hitler. He perfected his techniques by experimenting on twins in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Mengele sends out young baby boys to be adopted around the world. The boys are in fact genetic clones of the dead Nazi leader. Mengele carefully selects the parents in an attempt to reproduce the family background and up bringing of the original Adolf Hitler. But Hitler's father had died when he was thirteen years old, and Mengele needs to organize a team of former Nazis to kill the adoptive fathers. A young American hears Mengele making these arrangements and reports this information to the famous Nazi hunter,Jacov Liebermann. After an exciting series of adventures, Liebermann eventually comes face to face with his archenemy, Mengele, at a remote farmhouse in America. First published in 1976 and made into a film in 1978,The Boys from Brazil was the first successful book toexplore the possible consequences of cloning and the re-emergence of Nazi ideas.Born in New York City on 27th August 1929, Ira Levin isone of America's most successful living authors. In 1997,he was honoured with the 'Bram Stoker Aw a rd forLifetime Achievement' by the American Horror Writers'Association. His stage play Deathtrap holds the record asthe fourth longest running thriller in Broadway history.Levin's first novel was A Kiss Before Dying, published in1953. The novel was an immediate success and won theMystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award. In1967 Levin published his bestselling and most influentialwork, Rosemary's Baby. The novel sold more than fivemillion copies and was the basis for a critically-acclaimedfilm by Roman Polanski, starring Mia Farrow. The themeof supernatural forces invading everyday life was taken upby many writers and film-makers in the following decade,most notably in films such as "The Omen" and "TheExorcist".
