Inspired by the unlikely and rapid success of this thread:
Fifteen years ago I bought a box of books at a garage sale. One was almost certainly a knockoff of the 1976 novel The Boys From Brazil (I can’t be certain it post-dated it – if not, the author should’ve sued Levin, or maybe it’s vice versa).
It was about an evil genius German (almost sure) scientist/med. dr. in South America. I want to say Argentina, not Brazil, but it was definitely set at some remote lab in the country, maybe jungle.
He was conducting mad scientist experiments to – ah, Hell, here the cliches overwhelm my memory. Revive Hitler? Breed supermen? That sort of thing.
Two or three other clues: either part or all of the book was told from the perspective of his nubile young daughter, whom he’d forced to live in isolation at his lab and who had a rebellious, love-hate, impliedly or actually incestuous relationship with him.
Naturally, ISTR that some Nazi-hunter types were trying to catch him/thwart [whatever the Hell he was plotting].
And . . . the main reason for remembering this . . . some or all of the action was for sure set in Bariloche, Argentina. I remember because it was the first time I’d heard of Argentina having sort of faux-alpine villages, and after reading more about Bariloche (which sounds awesome) over the years, I’m including it on my itinerary for my Argentina trip later this year (for fly fishing and other diversions).
Any idea what the pulp book’s title was? N.B. several people I mentioned the fact pattern to seemed to recall Leon Uris had written in a similar vein. I was pretty sure it was well sub-Uris on the thriller/pulp meter, and when I looked at whatever Uris had written, yep, that’s not it.