TY - BOOK AU - Kanon, Joseph, TI - The accomplice: a novel SN - 9781501121425 AV - PS3561.A476 A64 2019 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York : PB - Atria Books, KW - Auschwitz (Concentration camp) KW - Fiction KW - Nazi hunters KW - War criminals KW - Germany KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Holocaust survivors KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - Buenos Aires (Argentina) KW - Argentina KW - sears KW - Spy fiction KW - fast KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N2 - "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 PerĂ³n 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."-- ER -