The Odessa File (CD-Audio)

from jontseng

Diligently research and gripping. A classic example of a "page-turning" thriller.

from bluesslave

Pretty good

from thegeneral

This is the first of Forsyth's books I have read. It is a really fast page turner. Historical fiction appeals to me and so to history about the WW2 period. Robert Harris' Fatherland I have also found very interesting. The premise of the book is about a secret organisation protecting and shelterin...

from keylawk

The author is the celebrated "Day of the Jackal" reporter who worked for Reuters in the 1960's. The Odessa organization was formed to rehabilitate former SS men into the professions of the Federal Republic created in 1949 by the Allies, to infiltrate political parties, to pay the legal defenses o...

from Schmerguls

This is Forsyth's second novel, published in 1972. I so liked his first (The Day of the Jackal, which I read 6 Feb 2010) that I thought I should read this. It did not disappoint, though I think it is inferior to his first book. It tells of Peter Miller, a 29-year-old German investigative German r...