by Joseph Kanon
“Fritz,” Aaron said, seeing him again, the splayed legs, the welts on his neck.
“Don’t forget who he was, Papa Schramm,” Nathan said, still following the car. He turned to Aaron. “You did the right thing.”
The words hung between them for a second. “Yes,” Aaron said, just to say something, not answering, his hand on the open car door, listening for her voice, head turned up as if the sound were really outside him, some private conversation in the air. But Nathan was talking again, his gravelly voice drowning out the whispering one, which grew fainter, more distant, until Aaron didn’t hear it anymore.
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JOSEPH KANON is the Edgar Award–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Defectors, Leaving Berlin, Istanbul Passage, Los Alamos, The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, Stardust, and The Good German, which was made into a major motion picture starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. He lives in New York City.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kanon, Joseph, author.
Title: The accomplice : a novel / Joseph Kanon.
Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2019. | Summary: “Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz—nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina’s Juan Perón gave them safe harbor and new identities. With his life nearing its end, Max asks his nephew Aaron Wiley—an American CIA desk analyst—to complete the task Max never could: to track down Otto in Argentina, capture him, and bring him back to Germany to stand trial. Unable to deny Max, Aaron travels to Buenos Aires and discovers a city where Nazis thrive in plain sight, mingling with Argentine high society. He ingratiates himself with Otto’s alluring but wounded daughter, whom he’s convinced is hiding her father. Enlisting the help of a German newspaper reporter, an Israeli agent, and the obliging CIA station chief in Buenos Aires, he hunts for Otto—a complicated monster, unexpectedly human but still capable of murder if cornered. Unable to distinguish allies from enemies, Aaron will ultimately have to discover not only Otto, but the boundaries of his own personal morality, how far he is prepared to go to render justice”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019037415 | ISBN 9781501121425 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501121449 (ebook)
Subjects: GSAFD: Spy stories. | Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3561.A476 A64 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019037415
ISBN 978-1-5011-2142-5
ISBN 978-1-5011-2144-9 (ebook)