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.............the story of a Russian manicurist........... A package of documents, containing a list of names, arrives anonymously at the Ministry of Justice in Bonn in 1964. Frederick Forsyth's bestselling thriller features the consequent life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal, against a background of international arms deals. "Every bit as exciting as its noted predecessor and even eerier."--Cosmopolitan. "A carefully thought out, meticulously researched, documented... highly suspenseful work of fiction."--Chicago Tribune. "Much more complex than the Jackal... intriguingly fact packed with relentless exporting, a protagonist propelled by an unstoppable force as suicidal as that of a lemming, and a time-factored chase ticking off to an explosive climax."--The Cleveland Press. "A highly superior combination of real-life facts and suspense fiction."--Publisher's Weekly

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution."

[Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] Frederick Forsyth's spellbinding novels may be the natural outgrowth of an adventuresome career in international investigative journalism. Written in Austria and Germany during the fall of 1971, The Odessa File is based on its author's life experiences as a Reuters man reporting from London, Paris, and East Berlin in the early 1960s. The ''Odessa'' of this title is an acronym for the secret organization which has protected the identities and advanced the destinies of former members of Hitler's dreaded SS since shortly before the end of World War II. One of its rare major defeats came in the spring of 1964, when a packet of dossiers arrived anonymously at the Ministry of Justice in Bonn. How and why a once carefree young German freelance journalist came to send the packet is told in this brilliant new extrapolation from reality into terror.

[Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] Frederick Forsyth's spellbinding novels may be the natural outgrowth of an adventuresome career in international investigative journalism. Written in Austria and Germany during the fall of 1971, The Odessa File is based on its author's life experiences as a Reuters man reporting from London, Paris, and East Berlin in the early 1960s. The ''Odessa'' of this title is an acronym for the secret organization which has protected the identities and advanced the destinies of former members of Hitler's dreaded SS since shortly before the end of World War II. One of its rare major defeats came in the spring of 1964, when a packet of dossiers arrived anonymously at the Ministry of Justice in Bonn. How and why a once carefree young German freelance journalist came to send the packet is told in this brilliant new extrapolation from reality into terror.

Code name: Werwolf. Setting: The New Germany. The action begins with the suicide of an elderly German Jew and explodes in revelation after revelation of a Mafia-like organization - O.D.E.S.S.A. - formed to protect and reestablish the power of SS murderers throughout the world... of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"... of a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger... of a brilliant, demented plot to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution" twenty years after the Fuhrer's death! "Framed by the unshakable facts of two turbulent decades, filled with an exceptional cast of characters - both real and fictional - "The Odessa File" is a story of superior swift suspense... An unmatchable reading experience!

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution."