Monster, The Mermaid, And Doctor Mengele

Josef Mengele: The Wilderness Years: Multiple award-winning author Ian Watson, who wrote the very first Warhammer 40K novels and worked for 10 months with Stanley Kubrick to produce the screen story for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (subsequently made by Spielberg), unveil's his latest mini-masterpiece. A typically offbeat slice of alternative history that asks 'What if...'. 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, he remained at large amidst a welter of rumour, false-sightings, and misinformation. He eventually drowned in 1979, whilst swimming off the coast of Brazil, due to a supposed heart attack. Now at last, after painstaking research, author Ian Watson reveals what really happened during Mengele's missing decades; an episode in which Herr Doktor crosses paths with a monster that even he had believed to be mere fiction. An encounter that would eventually bring about his death...