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The suicide of an elderly German Jew and his left diary explodes into one revelation after another: of a post-war Nazi organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of... read more
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It sounds complicated but it is made understandable as only Forsyth can accomplish. On the night that John F. Kennedy is assassinated, a young reporter stumbles onto an event that becomes the starting point of a search for the truth about one of the many notorious SS members who escaped... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Peter Miller: the journalist who goes out in search of a notorious criminal.. will he find him in the end is what the story is all about
- Eduard Roschmann: notorious nazi. The butcher of riga.
- Mackensen: professional assasin and nazi hired to take care of Miller.
- Sigi: peter miller's girlfriend.
- Leon: Add a description of this character.
- Klaus Winzer: the nazi fake passport maker.
- Cadbury: A journalist who Miller meets up wih during his search for Roschmann's whereabouts.
- Koppel
- Rolf Gunther Kolb: A dead SS man whose identity is given to Miller to help him get into the Odessa.
- Motti
- Kennedy
- Tauber: The guy who was previously imprisoned in a concentration camp run by Eduard Roschmann. His diary makes Peter Miller go after Roschmann to bring him to justice.
- Russell
- Brandt
- Herr Miller
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Oskar
- Alfred Oster
- Adolf Hitler
- Josef
- Herr Marx
- Gluecks
- Herr Eberhardt
- Nasser
- Reich
- Dr Schmidt
- Hoffmann
- Adenauer
- Meir Amit
- Dorn
- Barbara
- Ben-gurion
- Herr Winzer
- Hartstein
- Herr Wiesenthal
- Franz
- Kamerad
- Werwolf: the odessa nazi leader/ supreme in West Germany.
Setting & Locations edit
- West Germany
- Odessa
- Riga
- Hamburg
- Munich
- Israel
- West Berlin
- Egypt
- Cairo
- Nuremberg
- Austria
- Bonn
- Osnabruck
- Graz
- Stuttgart
- Bremen
- Vienna
- Bavaria
- Ludwigsburg
- Helwan
- Flossenburg
- Dachau
- Altona
- Poland
- Bayreuth
- Tel Aviv
- Frankfurt
- Argentina
- Magdeburg
- London
- Buenos Aires
- Russia
- Europe
- Bad Godesberg
- Zurich
- Danzig
- Madrid
- South America
- Wiesbaden
- Rome
- Belsen
- Auschwitz
- Latvia
- Shabak
- Switzerland
- France
- Dallas
- Jerusalem
- Lower Saxony
- Italy
Organizations edit
First Sentence edit
The ODESSA of the title is neither the city in southern Russia nor the small town in America.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1973. (authoritative list)
This is book 3 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1972. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Frederick Forsyth (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Arrow Books
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1972
ISBN: 978-0-099-55281-9
Page Count: 422
Publisher: Arrow Books
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1972
ISBN: 978-0-099-55281-9
Page Count: 422
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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Movie Connections edit
- The Odessa File (IMDb): Ronald Neame, 1974
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