Frederick Forsyth · 1972 · thriller

Frederick Forsyth's 1972 thriller. In Hamburg in 1963, the reporter Peter Miller comes into the diary of a dead concentration camp survivor and sets out to find the SS officer named in it. His hunt leads to Vienna and the Nazi-hunters, then deep into West Germany and the ODESSA - the network of former SS men who protect their own, and kill to do it.

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   Hamburg

   On the night of Kennedy's assassination, the freelance reporter Peter Miller follows an ambulance in Hamburg and comes away with a dead man's diary - the testimony of a survivor of the Riga ghetto, naming the SS captain who ran it.

2. 2
   Vienna

   In Vienna, Miller takes the diary to the Nazi-hunters who have spent twenty years compiling what the authorities will not, and learns that the man he seeks is alive, prosperous and shielded by an organisation called ODESSA.

3. 3
   Bayreuth

   Coached to pass as a former SS man, Miller works his way into the network - forged papers, whispered introductions, old comrades in Bayreuth and beyond - while ODESSA quietly puts a professional killer on his trail.

4. 4
   Stuttgart

   The trail ends in the industrial south, where the hunted officer lives under a new name behind a respectable factory gate - one whose real output could arm a war - and Miller learns why this particular pursuit was always personal.