The Eternal Nazi

Praise for The Eternal Nazi A fascinating read. This is a tale of police procedural, in an era before computers and databases, of those hunting the worst humans this world had to offer. -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer A brisk, compelling read, with all the frustrating plot twists and eccentric character cameos of an espionage thriller. -- The Jewish Daily Forward An elusive Nazi doctor who escaped justice receives a thorough scouring ... Haunting, doggedly researched. -- Kirkus Reviews The Eternal Nazi manages that rare feat of being as cinematically riveting as it is morally serious. --Buzzfeed This highly readable account unfolds more than a mystery novel than a work of non-fiction. It is crisply written, meticulously documented and highly engaging. It is superb reporting that will keep readers engaged until the very last page. -- King Features [A] dramatic story--which often makes fiction seem tame by comparison--with the flair of a riveting mystery. --Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A brilliant feat of historical detection that illuminates a nation's dramatic reckoning with the crimes of the Holocaust. --Bookreporter.com Part biography, part engrossing true crime story, The Eternal Nazi is a fascinating look at the hunt for Nazi war criminals after World War II. --Shelf Awareness He was hardly as famous as Josef Mengele, but Aribert Heim was every bit as vicious. And, like Mengele, this doctor-torturer-murderer eluded his hunters until the very end. The Eternal Nazi finally reconstructs Heim's dark odyssey--from his sadistic practices in Mauthausen to his life in hiding as a convert to Islam in Cairo. Part detective story, part meditation on how family loyalties obstructed those seeking justice, this book is a remarkable achievement. --Andrew Nagorski, author of Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power With exacting detail