The Man from São Paulo (2023)

The Man from São Paulo (2023)

A gripping tale of assassination and espionage, conspiracy and Nazis on the run.

In 1942, a field medic rescues a soldier from a burning tank and tends his wounds. The soldier’s name is Karl Günther Schmidt, a conscript from Stuttgart, and the field medic is Doctor Josef Mengele. The two men meet again after the war, when they both relocate to Argentina. In 1977 in Reykjavik, a young police detective, Hedinn Vernhardsson, is tasked with investigating a cold-blooded murder of a taxi driver, shot in the back of the head sitting in his car. The victim was a confirmed Nazi collaborator in Copenhagen during the war. The tenant of the dead man’s spare room turns out to be one Karl Günther Schmidt. Soon Detective Vernhardsson finds himself entangled in something much larger than one man’s murder, a grand international conspiracy with global repercussions.

**** ½ Four and a half stars “A book that belongs in the spotlight ... The description of the main characters and their mindset is brilliant." SG, MORGUNBLADID DAILY