Finished Tu 11/24/14
Picked this one out of my collection, and finished it in two days. I read most of it the day of the Anderson Construction kitchen countertop remodel.
Emily Ashcroft and her father are writing the definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, and her father is killed in a hit and run in Berlin. She journeys to Berlin to complete the book and gets information that Hitler might have used a double and faked his suicide in April of 1949.
The book is a blend of fiction and fact about Hitler's various secret hideout/bunkers in Germany.
The novel posits that the seventh bunker was a secret one, and was attached to the Fuehrerbunker where Hitler was thought to have taken his own life and then to have been burned by his SS troopers.
In the novel Hitler died of Parkinson's on the same day that Kennedy was shot, 11/22/63. And Eva Braun lived on under the alias Evelyn Hoffman.
Emily is helped by an architect from California, Rex Foster, who is also writing a book. His deals with the architecture of the Third Reich.
Nice read and it kept my interest, but the parts that were not developed were probably the most interesting. Hitler and Eva envisioned a war between the Soviets and the Americans and after they annihilated each other, National Socialism would take over the world.
Worth the half dozen hours I spent reading the book.
Wikipedia entry-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Secret
Irving Wallace wikipedia-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Wallace
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