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Summary: Phenomenal
Review: Just started a new job with an hour commute distance. There were times, listening to this book, that I just wanted to keep driving, so I could find out what happened. It's the audio equivalent of a page turner. Pottinger keeps you guessing till the very end. There were even times when I said the same words the characters were saying because I was so into the story. The version I listened to was read by Jonathan Marosz and was unabridged. Marosz is a fantastic reader and I find myself listening to new authors just because the books are being read by him. If you like a twisting, turning, roller coaster intrigue that takes your guts with the story from start to finish, then The Last Nazi is for you.
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Summary: AN EPIC READING OF AN EPIC THRILLER
Review: Just when we thought all fears of Nazi terrors had long been laid to rest "Adalwolf" appears in our country. His given name is not known. What is known is that he is a genius, and was once the diabolic young protege of the Butcher of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele. The world believed him dead for almost half a century. Yet, he is very much alive and has killed three people. Melissa Gale is an attorney and investigator for the Office of special Investigations, the entity known as "Nazi Hunters." She is on the trail of "Adalwolf," little knowing that he is stalking her. It is only through Melissa and her personal medical history that this deadly psychopath can create a virus capable of mass destruction. The two readers cast for this epic thriller deserve a hearty high five. Paul Hecht invests his delivery with appropriate menace, and Maggi-Meg Reed is a sterling Melissa. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: Horrifying Scenario
Review: Many thriller readers like myself have wondered if there would ever be a variation on the traditional Neo-Nazi plot. "The Last Nazi" by Stan Pottinger breaks the mold with its diabolic originality. A tenacious Nazi hunter, attorney Melissa Gale is tirelessly pursuing the malevolent protege of Dr Josef Mengle, Adelwolfe who has escaped justice for decades. Her unquenchable drive leads her down many corridors of treachery, distrust and mocking red herrings. Adelwolfe taunts her through electronic voice recordings and eerie music and coincidentally a mutant strain of virus is asserting itself in almost epidemic proportions. Melissa's personal life is further complicated by her desire to conceive as her biological clock is ticking.Yet her path and Adelwolfe's will intersect in startling and unexpected ways that will mesmerize and delight readers who seek the unpredicatable in thriller fiction. Any further revelation of the plot would cheat the readers out of a pulsating discovery for themselves. "The Last Nazi" peaks at the top of its class and Stan Pottinger has cemented an already prestigous reputation with this superior excursion into dizzying excitement.
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Summary: Fast Paced Thriller
Review: Meliss Gale is a Nazi Hunter. The last Nazi who Gale is hunting is the mysterious and elusive Adalwolf. Adalwolf is rumored to be the foster son of The Third Reich's Dr. Josef Mengele, last seen polluting the waters of Chile with his dying breaths. Gale has come close to capturing Adalwolf on numerous occasions, and as THE LAST NAZI opens, she thinks she has him. Remember, however, this is the beginning of the book, not the end. Adalwolf and Gale have been doing a deadly dance for years, and Gale has thought she has had him on numerous occasions, only to have him slip from her grasp. Adalwolf, for his part, has decided that it will be only fitting to utilize Gale as his unwilling, unwitting instrument by which Hitler's goal of the total extermination of the Jewish race will be accomplished. Adalwolf's plan is horrifically ingenious, and has the added effect of raising a moral dilemma. By the time you finish the final page of THE LAST NAZI you will be mentally out of breath, yet wishing that this fine novel had another 300 pages to go. The result is a thriller that ratchets the suspense level up with each rapidly turning page, while simultaneously creating a heartwarming effect that provides an element of hope and beauty in the face of irrational hatred. Pottinger with THE LAST NAZI continues his rapid rise up the 'A' List of thriller writers with this unforgettable, "impossible to put down" novel.
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Summary: Fast Paced Thriller
Review: Meliss Gale is a Nazi Hunter. The last Nazi who Gale is hunting is the mysterious and elusive Adalwolf. Adalwolf is rumored to be the foster son of The Third Reich's Dr. Josef Mengele, last seen polluting the waters of Chile with his dying breaths. Gale has come close to capturing Adalwolf on numerous occasions, and as THE LAST NAZI opens, she thinks she has him. Remember, however, this is the beginning of the book, not the end. Adalwolf and Gale have been doing a deadly dance for years, and Gale has thought she has had him on numerous occasions, only to have him slip from her grasp. Adalwolf, for his part, has decided that it will be only fitting to utilize Gale as his unwilling, unwitting instrument by which Hitler's goal of the total extermination of the Jewish race will be accomplished. Adalwolf's plan is horrifically ingenious, and has the added effect of raising a moral dilemma. By the time you finish the final page of THE LAST NAZI you will be mentally out of breath, yet wishing that this fine novel had another 300 pages to go. The result is a thriller that ratchets the suspense level up with each rapidly turning page, while simultaneously creating a heartwarming effect that provides an element of hope and beauty in the face of irrational hatred. Pottinger with THE LAST NAZI continues his rapid rise up the 'A' List of thriller writers with this unforgettable, "impossible to put down" novel.
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Summary: A "light snack" read compared to Pottinger's previous novels
Review: Melissa is a "nazi hunter", working with the FBI to track down the last nazi criminal who goes by the name Adalwolf. Her grandmother and long time friend Ben Ben-Zevi were once prisoners in the death camps, so she has many personal feelings about her job. Adalwolf, however, is very aware of Melissa, and loves to play games with her. His latest game getting her suspended from her job so that he can continue working on releasing the NTX virus he has developed that will target only people with Jewish heritage.
She and her husband David have been trying for years to have a baby, and after her suspension move to Florida to be near Ben-Zevi, who has found a doctor named Eric Brandt who believes he has found a way for Melissa to become pregnant.
Though she is suspended, she continues to work with her cohert Harris in attempting to track down Adalwolf, and when her leads get hotter and hotter, so does Adalwolf's determination to keep her away long enough for him to perfect his ultimate biological weapon.
This is a great book, but it is thinner and weaker than Pottinger's first two novels. "The Fourth Procedure" and "A Slow Burning" were meatier, heavy, intense main courses; while "The Last Nazi" is more of a quick light snack. It is still a good book, more in the fast go-for-the-gusto style of Stephen J. Cannell rather than typical Pottinger, but if you are going to the beach or taking a flight somewhere, pick this up and pass the time pleasently.
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Summary: Great entertainment
Review: See synopsis above. I liked the storyline. I liked the premise. I liked the pace and the intensity. Pottinger has put together an intense thriller that will grab you by the gut and won't let loose until you get to the very satisfying end.
The idea of biological/genetic terrorism comes to light, especially when it's written by Stan Pottinger. Nicely done. "There are rules for everyone else, and then there are rules for monsters" Highly recommended.
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: Stan Pottinger has all the right credentials to make up a good writer. With his legal background and fertile imagination, you might expect a great book in the making. But a page turner or fast read does not guarentee that a book will be good. In this case, I found the premise far-fetched and somewhat insulting to describe Jews as a race. Perhaps Mr. Pottengier needs some help with science and/or genetics here too.
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Summary: Thank God this is Fiction!
Review: Stan Pottinger's book kept me turning pages, kept me guessing, kept me up at night, and kept me desperately hoping that what happens in the book can not and will not happen in real life. What makes it so good is that is yes, this book has a stunning plot that twists and turns, and yes, it has a stunning female heroine and a stunning fiend at the helm, but more importantly: All too often suspense or thrillers have only one premise - good vs evil -- THE LAST NAZI has that too, of course -- but it has more. This threat is not just to society at large but is played out on a very personal scale with the main characters so that you - the reader - feel it and respond to it in a far more immediate way. Nothing about this book is a disappointment. And everything about it sheer excitement from the very first page to the last. Note to the author: This book demands a sequal. And I can't wait.
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Summary: Stayed up all night
Review: Stayed up all night to finish this quick reading, fast-paced, suspense thriller. Enjoyed the story line, the characters and the scary plausability of its reality. Give it a try.
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