“Double, Double Toil and Trouble” by Lion Feuchtwanger

"Lion Feuchtwanger has woven a new tale around the well-worn maxim, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" This time the man is a clairvoyant of sorts who, through his Nazi brother’s persuasion, becomes Hitler’s soothsayer. By performing fake tricks of prophecy for the Nazi Party he loses whatever genuine gift or sincerity he might have had. He gains his pleasure palace through this chicanery, but at the same time he becomes involved in the gang warfare in which Hitler and his henchmen double-cross each other and the world. As a story it all seems a bit unreal. But, then, to most people the whole Nazi world is unreal." (original 1943 blurb)

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