By Frederick Forsyth

Fantastic. 5 out of 5, no question. This is the only book that I have ever read that caused me to gasp with plot twists … and that happened on two occasions.

The story is set in 1960s Germany. A news reporter happens to be on the scene when the body of a suicidee is discovered. A local policeman gives the reporter a diary in case he’d like a couple of details about the man for the report. It’s with this diary that the plot starts: The man is a survivor of a concentration camp in Riga, and documents the sadism of the commandant who, among other things, made the man put his own wife in a mobile gas unit.

The survivor took his own life twenty years later after he saw that commandant visiting the opera, and came to the realisation that the criminals had gotten away with it.

The reporter delves a little deeper into the investigation and uncovers a secret organisation (ODESSA) which exists to protect SS members, using subterfuge, coercion, and murder.

Although he can’t think why, the reporter feels driven to track down this Nazi.

Meticulously researched and featuring a cast of famous people and events of that time, this is absolutely rivetting. I won’t lie and say I couldn’t put it down; however, I got through all 400 pages in a 24-hour period and am now downloading the film. This is a book of the highest order.