Hitler's Daughter

by Timothy B. Benford

This election year thriller was written two years before the first woman ran on major ticket in a Presidential election. It received the West Coast Review of Books' Porgie' Award as one of the three best original novels of the year and a decade later was made into a TV Movie of The Week. On a dark night in May 1945, a pregnant woman is spirited out of Nazi Germany. Then, 36 years later, proof has been found by a White House aide that the central architect of the resurgence of neo-Nazism in the United States is Hitler's Daughter. She could be any one of three powerful women close to the White House.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a serviceable race against time thriller with perhaps too much showing of emotion and exclamation points. It even had a pretty high body count.

Unfortunately, it kind of lost it when it decided to be a twist novel and let evil win, basically knocking off the entire cast of good guys in a single epilogue chapter (though I think one ally escapes but is never addressed). It would have been okay if it seemed like it was subtly building towards that, but it was like nope, everyone is dead!

Passable, but ultimately forgettable.

[Julie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I enjoy schlock as much as the next person, but this was almost laughably bad on every level: characterization, plot, you name it. I picked this up at a used book sale and would like both my Saturday afternoon and my 50 cents back.

[John senesy]

This book was one of the first books that I borrowed from my mom; and I loved it. Yes it is trashy, but it was fun.