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STORY LINE Yakov Liebermann is an elderly gentleman who is known as a that documents crimes against humanity perpetrated during The Holocaust . 'Center' is a big word: the waning interest of the Western nations in tracking down Nazi criminals has forced him to move the center to his lodgings. Then, in September 1974, he receives a disturbing phone call from a young man who claims he has just finished eavesdropping on the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele , the Concentration Camp medical doctor who performed horrible experiments on Nazi victims. According to the young man, Mengele is activating the Kameradenwerk for a strange and gruesome assignment: he is sending out six Nazis to kill 94 men, who share a few common traits. All men are civil servants and all of them have to be killed on a certain date, give or take a few days. Before the young man can finish the conversation, there is a muffled sound of sudden action, then icy nothing, then the line goes dead. Liebermann hesitates about what to do: he gets so many prank calls. But what if what the young man said is true? He decides to try to find out what's going on. A crazy hunt for Mengele and his boys ensues. NOTES The book claims that the characters, with the exception of the 'persons of note', are not intended to represent specific living persons. However, the Liebermann character bears a more than passing resemblance to Simon Wiesenthal . The meaning of the title only becomes evident later in the book when Yakov Leiberman begins to discover why the 94 men are to be killed. SEE ALSO Alternate History novels that deal with the Nazi regime:
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