The Madagaskar Plan, Guy Saville
The Madagaskar Plan, Guy Saville
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The Madagaskar Plan

Author: Guy Saville

Narrator: Richard Burnip

Unabridged: 20 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2016


Synopsis

A brilliant "what if" novel of the years after WW2 for fans of The Man in the High Castle.

1953. Britain and her Empire are diminished. Nazi Germany controls Europe and a vast African territory. There has been no Holocaust. Instead, the Jews have been exiled to Madagaskar, a tropical ghetto ruled by the SS.

Returning home after a disastrous mission to Africa, ex-mercenary Burton Cole finds his lover has disappeared. Desperate to discover her, he is drawn into a conspiracy that will lead him back to the Dark Continent.

Meanwhile Walter Hochburg, Nazi Governor of Kongo, has turned his attention to Madagaskar. Among the prisoners are scientists who could develop him a weapon of unimaginable power.

But Hochburg is not the only one interested in Madagaskar. The British plan to destroy its naval base to bring America into a war against the Reich. They have found the ideal man for the task: Reuben Salois, the only Jew to have escaped the ghetto. The only one brave, or foolhardy, enough to return.

These three men will converge on Madagaskar. The fate of the world is in their hands...

Drawing on the Nazis' original plans for the Jews, Guy Saville has meticulously imagined a world-that-nearly-was to tell an epic tale of love, revenge and survival.

(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton

About Guy Saville

Guy Saville was born in 1973. He has lived in South America and North Africa and is currently based in the UK. The Afrika Reich is his first novel.For further information visit www.guysaville.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on November 02, 2015

this was better than the first part of this series as felt more gritty and more like the thriller we could of had in the afrika reich. as this alternative history series goes on with burton cole going to madagaskar to search for his lover maddie and her husband is behind an attempt to destroy the na......more

Goodreads review by S.J.A. on January 28, 2016

A few days ago Guy Saville pointed out on Facebook that the paperback of The Madagaskar Plan was coming out today. I’ve had both this and The Afrika Reich sitting in my ‘to-be-read’ pile for some time. I ummed and ahhed over whether it would be wise to start book 2 before I’ve read book 1, but heck......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on May 28, 2015

I was very happy to win this particular book because my father was in WW11 and he was a POW for 3 months so he had first hand knowledge of Hitler and the Nazi death squads that came to his last camp to kill everyone when Hitler knew he lost the war. Gen Patton freed them. So I have always wanted mor......more

Goodreads review by Rhys on June 15, 2020

The second book in the Afrika Reich series, like my first review of the prior mentioned all is to be expected. This book takes place mainly in the German Congo and Madagascar and Deigo Garcia, though with no spoilers being stated in this review all charterers are more developed from the first book in......more

Goodreads review by Abby on April 23, 2015

Received free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. In 1940, the Nazi party proposed a plan to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. It is now 1952, and in an alternate reality, the plan has succeeded. Madeleine, an Austrian Jew, is one of these prisoners. I......more


Quotes

Saville doesn't sacrifice characterization for action or plot in his imaginative sequel to 2013's The Afrika Reich ... [his] attention to detail is manifest throughout Publishers Weekly

Sometimes it takes a stark and stunning reminder of what could have been to remind us how lucky we are. Truly the best book I have read this year so far. Parmenion Books

With terrifying plausibility, Saville imagines Madagascar as a melting pot of Nazi brutality, audacious conspiracies, desperate battles for life and simmering revolt. Add to this outstandingly visual prose, ingenious plotting and a cast of acutely observed characters, and you have the most daring, disturbing and compelling alternate history you will read this year. Lancashire Evening Post

Praise for The Afrika Reich -

Saville gives us an horrific reimagining of the Dark Continent The Times

[The] plot is clever, imaginative and, in its finale, wholly unexpected. In a crowded field, THE AFRIKA REICH stands out as a rich and unusual thriller, politically sophisticated and hard to forget Economist

Fatherland for an action movie age Daily Telegraph

A thoroughly enjoyable and compelling read Sun

This graphic, pacy alternate history thriller is scarily convincing Australian

An enthralling look at the horror that might have been if Germany was not defeated Sydney Daily Telegraph