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The Fuhrer's Prophecy
400 pages, Paperback
Published March 15, 2023
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About the author
Brian Klein
14 books43 followersBrian is an award-winning Television Director, with over twenty-five years' experience in the industry. His work regularly appears on Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC and Sky. Amongst his directing credits are twenty-five seasons of the iconic car show, TOP GEAR and five seasons of A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN ROADTRIP, Sky One's highest rating entertainment show.
He was part of the core team that produced twenty-two series of the controversial car show that became the biggest TV phenomena in the world, with 350 million weekly viewers in 120 countries and worked extremely closely with TV heavyweights, Jeremy Clarkson and James Corden, high profile comedians, Jack Whitehall, Alan Carr, Tom Allen, Romesh Ranganathan and Micky Flanagan, sports stars turned presenters, Freddie Flintoff, Jamie Redknapp and Ronnie O’Sullivan and TV chefs Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White.
He has directed two feature-length films for BBC Worldwide and five entertainment specials for Netflix. THE COUNTERFEIT CANDIDATE is his debut novel.
He was part of the core team that produced twenty-two series of the controversial car show that became the biggest TV phenomena in the world, with 350 million weekly viewers in 120 countries and worked extremely closely with TV heavyweights, Jeremy Clarkson and James Corden, high profile comedians, Jack Whitehall, Alan Carr, Tom Allen, Romesh Ranganathan and Micky Flanagan, sports stars turned presenters, Freddie Flintoff, Jamie Redknapp and Ronnie O’Sullivan and TV chefs Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White.
He has directed two feature-length films for BBC Worldwide and five entertainment specials for Netflix. THE COUNTERFEIT CANDIDATE is his debut novel.
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November 14, 2024
Picked this up at the library and read the first three chapters and thought this is not for me. Mindless holiday/beach reading maybe but that is not what I want at the moment so there is no point.
It is one of those books where the author keeps supplying technical details about stuff so as if to impress the reader. This is especially true of guns. 'All four were armed with an M249 light machine gun, capable of spitting out 5.56mm rounds...'.
Also we read that the superyacht is 'powered by an innovative diesel-electric propulsion system that produced an impressive top speed of thirty plus knots'. So what, it's fiction, the author could say anything. Maybe later in the book it has a race with another boat that can only do 29 knots and that propulsion system blows up or something.
It is one of those books where the author keeps supplying technical details about stuff so as if to impress the reader. This is especially true of guns. 'All four were armed with an M249 light machine gun, capable of spitting out 5.56mm rounds...'.
Also we read that the superyacht is 'powered by an innovative diesel-electric propulsion system that produced an impressive top speed of thirty plus knots'. So what, it's fiction, the author could say anything. Maybe later in the book it has a race with another boat that can only do 29 knots and that propulsion system blows up or something.
October 5, 2025
Good enough plot to pass a night shift or flight, but terribly written. Overly descriptive writing is not something I particularly enjoy. I don't need to know what kind of coffee cup the police chief is drinking his coffee from, not do I really care what specific rifle a Nazi guard is holding.
I get the feeling Klein subscribes to the idea that more words are better quality when actually letting the reader fill the gaps in their way for minor details is the way I think writing should be done. Either that or he writes with a lot of AI assistance which would explain the extensive amount of superfluous detail.
I didn't realise this was book 2, but I looked over the first one's page for a plot review and apparently people thought the same then.
I get the feeling Klein subscribes to the idea that more words are better quality when actually letting the reader fill the gaps in their way for minor details is the way I think writing should be done. Either that or he writes with a lot of AI assistance which would explain the extensive amount of superfluous detail.
I didn't realise this was book 2, but I looked over the first one's page for a plot review and apparently people thought the same then.
May 6, 2023
It’s unfortunate Goodreads doesn’t let me do half stars because I’d give it a 3.5/5.
Overall, I liked the story and the plot. It has the same pacing as “The Counterfeit Candidate,” although the intrigue is a little diminished because it’s hard to top the plot of that book.
My main concern is the dialogue is pretty bad. There is just so much exposition. There’s a few moments that are meant to be emotional moments, but they come out of left field and are a little jarring and awkward. The book does its best outside the dialogue.
But definitely a good read for fans of the first. Certainly interested to see how it wraps up in the final book.
Overall, I liked the story and the plot. It has the same pacing as “The Counterfeit Candidate,” although the intrigue is a little diminished because it’s hard to top the plot of that book.
My main concern is the dialogue is pretty bad. There is just so much exposition. There’s a few moments that are meant to be emotional moments, but they come out of left field and are a little jarring and awkward. The book does its best outside the dialogue.
But definitely a good read for fans of the first. Certainly interested to see how it wraps up in the final book.
October 8, 2024
Second of the series about Adolf Hitler's descendants. John Franklin resurfaces and puts together a team to make his grandfather's dream come true---eradicating all Jews from the face of the earth.
Vargas and Hembury are back on the case, and team up with Mossad. Franklin is constantly on the move, but the security forces still manage to foil his plans.
Culminating in a costly fire fight, will the team of international law enforcers be able to prevent a world-wide disaster from happening?
Vargas and Hembury are back on the case, and team up with Mossad. Franklin is constantly on the move, but the security forces still manage to foil his plans.
Culminating in a costly fire fight, will the team of international law enforcers be able to prevent a world-wide disaster from happening?
July 27, 2024
Really not sure what I think of this to be honest. I felt it was too long. Probably just not my cup of tea.
May 22, 2025
Interesting what if plot but had a tendency to reiterate exposition. Not sure if I’ll continue with the other books in the series.
October 2, 2023
Just finished reading The Counterfeit Candidate so I thought I'd try this one. The dialogue and sentence structure in
The Counterfeit Candidate was at times pretty awful but the first page of the Prophecy put me off. It's supposed to be 1943 and there's a sentence saying " . . . menacing patterns that aptly framed the entrance to the world's most notorious death camp." In 1943 little was known or suspected about Nazi death camps so how could Auschwitz be the most notorious? Figure that one out. Book has been binned.
The Counterfeit Candidate was at times pretty awful but the first page of the Prophecy put me off. It's supposed to be 1943 and there's a sentence saying " . . . menacing patterns that aptly framed the entrance to the world's most notorious death camp." In 1943 little was known or suspected about Nazi death camps so how could Auschwitz be the most notorious? Figure that one out. Book has been binned.
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