Named โThe Book of the Yearโ by Lee Child in The Guardian
From โmaster of the genreโ (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman connected to them both.
Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitzโnor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm. He was the camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Maxโs 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 Argentinaโs Juan Perรณn gave them safe harbor and new identities. With his life nearing its end, Max asks his nephew Aaron Wileyโan American CIA desk analystโto 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 his uncle, Aaron travels to Buenos Aires and discovers a city where Nazis thrive in plain sight, mingling with Argentine high society. He ingratiates himself with Ottoโs alluring but damaged daughter, whom heโs 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 Ottoโa complicated monster, unexpectedly human but still capable of murder if cornered. Unable to distinguish allies from enemies, Aaron will ultimately have to discover just how far he is prepared to go to render justice.
โWith his remarkable emotional precision and mastery of toneโ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Joseph Kanon crafts another โgripping and authenticโ (The New York Times Book Review) thriller that you wonโt be able to put down.