"Angel of Death" - that was the name of Joseph Mengele prisoners of Auschwitz. Tens of thousands became victims of his "medical experiments," from the description of which blood cools in its veins. After the war, they searched for him, but never managed to find him. Who was he - this modest scion of a wealthy family, a medic of medium abilities, who fearlessly perceived the inhuman ideas of Nazism? One of the terrifying myths of the twentieth century is investigated in his stunning novel by the French writer Olivier Guez, resurrecting the fate of "Doctor Death" until the very end, when, pursued by the whole world, changing names and countries, Mengele finds himself face to face with the ghosts of a terrible past.