The Odessa File

Fülszöveg

The ODESSA of this title is not a city in Russia or a town in Texas but an acronym for the secret organization which has, with a large measure of success, protected the identities and advanced the destinies of former members of Hitler's dreaded SS in and out of Germany since shortly before the end of World War II. One of the rare major defeats it has suffered came in the spring of 1964, when a packet of dossiers arrived anonymously at the Ministrv of Justice in Bonn. How and why a oncecarefreeyoung Germán free-lance journalist narned Peter Miller came to send the packet is told in this brilliant new extrapolation fror" reality into terror by the author of The Day of the Jackal. With Miller the reader enters a Nemesis pursuit that takes him from a sleety night in Hamburg to the cornering of his humán prey in a snowbound eyrie in the Taunus í Mountains. He will begin with the I searing diary of a survivor of the Riga, Latvia, extermination camp com| manded by SS Captain Eduárd f... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The ODESSA of this title is not a city in Russia or a town in Texas but an acronym for the secret organization which has, with a large measure of success, protected the identities and advanced the destinies of former members of Hitler's dreaded SS in and out of Germany since shortly before the end of World War II. One of the rare major defeats it has suffered came in the spring of 1964, when a packet of dossiers arrived anonymously at the Ministrv of Justice in Bonn. How and why a oncecarefreeyoung Germán free-lance journalist narned Peter Miller came to send the packet is told in this brilliant new extrapolation fror" reality into terror by the author of The Day of the Jackal. With Miller the reader enters a Nemesis pursuit that takes him from a sleety night in Hamburg to the cornering of his humán prey in a snowbound eyrie in the Taunus í Mountains. He will begin with the I searing diary of a survivor of the Riga, Latvia, extermination camp com| manded by SS Captain Eduárd f Roschmann íwhoearnedhisreputation as the "Butcher of Riga" by . directly overseeing the slaughter of 1 eighty thousand Germán and Austrian Jews between 1941 and 1944 », and f learn of Roschmann's many escapes f and current involvement with a plánt secretly designing CBW warheads to I be rained on Israel from Egypt: he will meet Simon Wiesenthal, the real man who lives to track down Nazi war criminals, and the man known a^ Werwolf, who heads the clandestine
Odessa inside West Germany; he will be imperiled by bomb and assassin, he will feel the iron of guilt and retribution strike into his very sóul. Frederjck Forsyth here spins a narrative web of tension and surprise, of death, triumph, and vengeance. It is a web of even greater tensile strength and grander design than that of its world-famous predecessor. FREDERICK FORSYTH's extraordinary way of writing novels one simply cannot put down may be the natural outgrowth of a vigorously adventuresome and unusually challenging career in international investigative journalism. Written in hotels in Austria and Germany during the fali of 1971, The Odessa Filé- üke the phenomenally successful The Day of the Jackal before it-is based on its author's life experiences as a Reuters man reporting from London, Paris, and East Berlin in the early 1960s. Mr. Forsyth is currently at work on a third növel, The Dogs of War, which he has set among mercenaries in Africa and in which he has included details of gun-running from Europe he uncovered while researching his nonfiction book, The Biafra Story, and while serving as the BBC's television correspondent in Biafra during the Nigérián civil war. Vissza