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The Accomplice

by Joseph Kanon

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"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"--… (more)
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A mix of mundane and interesting. Hated how he wrote the *one* woman character. Idea of justice was good. Protagonist occasionally had depth. ( )
  eas7788 | Apr 22, 2024 |
Max survived Auschwitz but lives with the horrors of what he saw in the camps including the medical experiments his former med school classmate, Otto Schramm, had forced him to participate in. Now, Max spends his few remaining days hunting out the Nazis who escaped with the help of fascists all over the world. When Max and his nephew Aaron see Otto, Max has a heart attack that leads to his death but only after enlisting Aaron to find Otto and bring him to justice.

Aaron, who works for the CIA, begins using his contacts to track down Otto's daughter but multi-national forces would prefer to avoid a public trial and Aaron is playing on multiple fronts.
  4leschats | Jul 15, 2020 |
This is a welcome return to form after his previous novel ‘Defectors’, which failed to reach the heights of his earlier books. Taking as its subject, one somewhat seldom used, it follows the path of Aaron Wiley in his quest to bring a Nazi war criminal, Otto Schramm, to trial in Germany in 1962. Kanon’s prose ratchets up the tension as the action moves from Hamburg to Buenos Aires after Aaron’s uncle, Max Weill, involves him in the hunt for Schramm. During the chase, Aaron becomes romantically involved with Otto’s daughter, which creates a complicating situation for them both, something that only increases as the story progresses. With CIA and Israeli agents after Otto, each with their own agenda, Aaron attempts to bring Otto to justice. By the end, there are several accomplices in the action and the style and pace of the writing, urge you on to discover which of the parties will active their goal.
  camharlow2 | Jun 16, 2020 |
Every time I review a book by Joseph Kanon I say the same thing: he’s done it again. That is not to say the story is the same, but THE ACCOMPLICE is Kanon’s usual historical fiction/thriller with characters in situations I’m sure they can’t get out of but always do. Presentation is always smart dialog, no long paragraphs describing scenery as in so many other novels. This book is, as Kanon’s books always are, excellent.

Aaron Wiley feels obligated to find Otto Schramn, a doctor who performed medical experiments on Jews during World War II. It is now the 1960s, and Aaron’s uncle Max Weill, who has been tracking and turning in Nazis since his imprisonment at Auschwitz, has spotted Schramm in Germany but dies soon after.

So Aaron deduces that Schramm has left for Buenos Aires and follows him there. With assistance from a German newspaper reporter, an Israeli agent, a CIA station chief, and even Schramm’s daughter, Aaron hunts for Schramm, a monster turned crazy man. ( )
  techeditor | Oct 11, 2019 |
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"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"--

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