The Good Assassin : : how a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
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Part I: The Aktions -- The Club on Skolas Street -- Zelma -- First Night -- Gogol Street -- 19 Waldemars -- The Moskow Suburb -- November 30th -- The Valley of the Dead -- Part II: Those Who Can Never Forget -- A Latvian in Rio -- "The Epitome of Humanity" -- Anton Kuenzle -- The Merciless One -- The Late One -- First Contact -- The Campaign -- "Our Own Thomas Edison" -- The Plantation -- Paranoia -- The Sabras -- "Certain Categories of Murder" -- The Camera -- "To Live With a Few Murderers" -- The House on Colombia Street -- The Wait -- An Offer -- The Legislator -- The Asylum -- The Trial.
"The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice, a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."-- Provided by the publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Boston ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781328613080
1328613089
SUBJECTS
Medad, Jacob, -- 1919-2012.
Cukurs, Herbert, -- 1900-1965 -- Assassination.
Israel. -- Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim.
Nazis -- Brazil.
Nazis -- Uruguay.
War criminals -- Rīga.
Fugitives from justice -- Uruguay.
Jews -- Persecutions -- Rīga.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Rīga.
Secret service -- Israel.