Hunting Eichmann; How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Michael Prendergast (Diagram). ix, [1], 390, pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations, black & white, Diagram. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear, soiling, and sticker residue on the front. Neal Bascomb (born 1971) is an American journalist and author. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Miami University with a B.A. in Economics and English Literature. After graduation, he worked as a journalist in London, Paris, and Dublin. He was an editor for St. Martin's Press, and in 2000, he began writing books full-time. His books have ranked on a number of bestseller lists, been optioned for film, and been published in over 15 countries. He has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. The first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of Adolf Eichmann, based on groundbreaking new information and interviews. Bringing Eichmann to justice would require 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, Hunting Eichmann follows the Nazi as he escapes two American POW camps, slips out of Europe and builds an anonymous life in Buenos Aires. A persistent search for Eichmann evolves into an international manhunt that includes a West German prosecutor, a blind Argentinean Jew and his beautiful daughter, and 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.