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The accomplice : a novel / Joseph Kanon.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.A476 A64 2019
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Kanon Accomp
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kanon, Joseph, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp).
- Nazi hunters--Fiction.
- Nazi hunters.
- War criminals--Germany--Fiction.
- War criminals.
- Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Germany.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Fiction.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Spy fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Spy stories.
- Suspense fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019.
- Summary:
- "Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz-nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's Juan Perón gave them safe harbor and new identities. With his life nearing its end, Max asks his nephew Aaron Wiley-an American CIA desk analyst-to complete the task Max never could: to track down Otto in Argentina, capture him, and bring him back to Germany to stand trial. Unable to deny Max, Aaron travels to Buenos Aires and discovers a city where Nazis thrive in plain sight, mingling with Argentine high society. He ingratiates himself with Otto's alluring but wounded daughter, whom he's convinced is hiding her father. Enlisting the help of a German newspaper reporter, an Israeli agent, and the obliging CIA station chief in Buenos Aires, he hunts for Otto-a complicated monster, unexpectedly human but still capable of murder if cornered. Unable to distinguish allies from enemies, Aaron will ultimately have to discover not only Otto, but the boundaries of his own personal morality, how far he is prepared to go to render justice"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781501121425
- 1501121421
- OCLC:
- 1085157703
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