The Good Assassin

STEPHEN TALTY

There is a misconception that most Nazi war criminals were brought to justice after WWII. They weren’t. Some stayed in Germany, others, guilty of the worst atrocities, did a runner. Herbert Cukurs was one of those, a Latvian who joined the SS and was responsible for the deaths of 30,000 Latvian Jews. This is the story of the Israeli intelligence agency’s hunt for him in South America, told in the style of a spy thriller, but actually a true story. Gripping and very entertaining. ■

• Amberley

• ISBN 978-1-3981-1233-9

• 308 pages • Paperback • £10.99