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Mengele at 90: Finally Funny

(Publisher’s Weekly, Jordan Foster, Jan. 26) Jerry Stahl returns with Pain Killers (Reviews, Jan. 19), an uproarious novel about a disgraced cop turned PI who’s hired to find out whether a San Quentin inmate is actually Josef Mengele. Were you concerned...

Jerry Strahl – Pain Killers

Septuagenarian Harry Zell breaks into the home of former cop turned private investigator Manny Rupert. After knocking out the sleuth and reviving him, Harry hires Manny to investigate the claim of a nonagenarian San Quentin inmate who insists he is Nazi war criminal...