The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia (Unabridged) The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia (Unabridged)

The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.

Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous figure in his small Latvian city, the “Charles Lindbergh of his country.” But by 1945, he was the Butcher of Latvia, a man who murdered some thirty thousand Latvian Jews. Somehow, he dodged the Nuremberg trials, fleeing to South America after war’s end.


By 1965, as a statute of limitations on all Nazi war crimes threatened to expire, Germany sought to welcome previous concentration camp commanders, pogrom leaders, and executioners, as citizens. The global pursuit of Nazi criminals escalated to beat the looming deadline, and Mossad, the Israeli national intelligence agency, joined the cause. Yaakov Meidad, the brilliant Mossad agent who had kidnapped Adolf Eichmann three years earlier, led the mission to assassinate Cukurs in a desperate bid to block the amnesty. In a thrilling undercover operation unrivaled by even the most ambitious spy novels, Meidad traveled to Brazil in an elaborate disguise, befriended Cukurs and earned his trust, while negotiations over the Nazi pardon neared a boiling point.

The Good Assassin uncovers this little-known chapter of Holocaust history and the pulse-pounding undercover operation that brought Cukurs to justice.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
NARRATOR
SR
Stefan Rudnicki
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:09
hr min
RELEASED
2020
21 April
PUBLISHER
Brilliance Audio
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
464.6
MB
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