The Book: Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb.
This is my latest obsession! I can't put this book down even though it has a well-known ending. I think about it day and night. I am always scheming ways to blow everyone off to be alone with my book and read. I am transported into another world when I read it. All of a sudden, I am the Nazi hunter and all I want is Eichmann! He must answer and pay for the genocide he helped create. It is absolutely fascinating. If you want a thriller and a great detective story that will grip and intrigue you AND teach you some history, go no further. The following is a short summary of the book. I highly recommend it, if you can't tell...
Adolf Eichmann is known as the mastermind or architect of the Holocaust. The man behind the "Final Solution" (concentration camps and extermination for Jews). Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished as the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich. The pursuit and capture of Eichmann required a harrowing fifteen-year chase stretching from war-ravaged Europe to the shores of Argentina.
Alternating from a criminal on the run to his pursuers closing in on his trail, Hunting Eichmann follows the Nazi as he escapes two American POW camps, hides in the mountains, slips out of Europe, and builds an anonymous life in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, a persistent search for Eichmann gradually evolves into an international manhunt that includes a bulldog West German prosecutor, a blind Argentinean Jew and his beautiful daughter, and a budding, ragtag spy agency called the Mossad, whose operatives have their own scores to settle. Presented in a pulse-pounding, hour-by-hour account, the capture of Eichmann and the efforts by Israeli agents to secret him out of Argentina and fly him to Israel to stand trial bring the narrative to a stunning conclusion.
