The Monster, the Mermaid, and Doctor Mengele

Following the fall of the Third Reich, Doktor Josef Mengele, Hitler’s notorious ‘Angel of Death’, fled to South America.

For three decades, despite the determined efforts of governments and Nazi hunters alike, he remained at large amidst a welter of rumour, false-sightings, and misinformation. Mengele eventually drowned in 1979, whilst swimming off the coast of Bertioga in Brazil, due to a supposed heart attack.

Now at last, after painstaking research, award-winning author Ian Watson reveals what really happened during Mengele’s missing decades; an episode in which Herr Doktor encounters a monster that even he had believed to be mere fiction. A series of events that would eventually lead to his death...