The novel by Ira Levin, author of the novels Rosemary's Baby, Sliver and The Dying Kiss, is written in the genre of a political thriller with a detective plot and a certain fantastical tolerance. Convinced Nazi doctor-criminal Josef Mengele conceives many years after the end of the war breed a new race of people - the Hitler race. He gathers a team of devoted people in the jungles of South America and prepares a large-scale terrorist act: the murder of elderly scientists and professors in different countries. Since Mengele is being hunted by one of these scientists - Dr. Simon Wiesenthal, the famous hunter of Nazi criminals... (A film with the same name was released in 1978 in the USA. Director: Frank Schaeffer. Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier).