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Title: The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0-553-27198-9 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Forsyth's best book by far!!!!!!
Comment: After reading "The Day of the Jackal", I thought that there couldn't be a better suspense thriller than this, but I still hadn't read "The Odessa File". Its set in the early 1960's, where a young freelance German journalist comes across the personal diary of an old German Jew who's committed suicide. Reading the diary through the night, the journalist, Peter Miller finds out that the Jew was a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp at Riga, Latvia during World War II. As he reads on, he's shocked by the graphic description by the Jew of the atrocities committed on the camp inmates by the camp commandant, Eduard Roschmann. Millers vows to track down Roschmann and bring him to justice. But while doing so, he comes across a super-secret organization known as Odessa, which protects Nazi ex-SS members from being captured and brought to justice. When Miller starts getting too close to the Odessa, his life is in grave danger. But he decides that it will end with him bringing Roschmann to justice for his crimes, or with his death.
"The Odessa File", as with all other Forsyth books, has a super-shocking twist in the end, where we get to know the real motive behind Miller wanting to find Roschmann. In the process, Forsyth manages to include The Beatles' short stint in Hamburg, the background of the brief Arab-Israeli war and last but not the least, Kennedy's assasination. As usual, Forsyth's factual knowledge is accurate to the point, and his research is deep and minute. "The Odessa File" is undoubtedly Frederick Forsyth at his very best.
Rating: 5
Summary: gripping classic mystery thriller
Comment: A classic mystery suspense set in 1960s Germany. A journalist gets involved in hunting down a Nazi war criminal (the Butcher of Riga) who is being aided by a shadow organization called The Odessa (name an acronym, not geographical). With a plot that links to arab terrorists, Israel, and ex-SS men, it's thrilling and tightly crafted. Fantastic, and apparently based on much fact in the generals.
Rating: 4
Summary: Skip The Last Half
Comment: The author's description of Nazi attrocities is outstanding!!!!
It should be required reading for every class in Holocaust Literature. The book also revealed a great deal of information about the Jewish ghetto in Riga, Latvia that could almost be a book in itself.
However, halfway through the book I became very disappointed. The plot degenerated into a cheap thriller. Such a cleverly researched book should never have been coupled with such a poorly written plot.
The horrors of The Riga Ghetto recently made news because of an investigation by The Latvian Holocaust Commission. Unfortunatly, even sixty years after the horrors of The Riga Ghetto, The Government of Latvia couldn't overcome it's antisemitism and Abraham Foxman of The World Jewish Congress resigned from the commission.
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Title: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553266306 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553268465 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553264907 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553251139 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0553572423 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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