The Strasbourg Legacy

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A CIA agent fights a sinister plot by escaped Nazi Martin Bormann in this thriller from the New York Timesbestselling author of Enemy at the Gates.

In the chaos of defeat, while Germanys roads teemed with desperate refugees and jumbled armies, Hitlers inner circle tried to disappear. Heinrich Himmler donned an eye patch and posed as a farmer. Captured by British troops, he bit into a cyanide capsule concealed in a tooth cavity. Rudolph Hoess, former commandant of Auschwitz, was discovered working as a farmhand near Bremen. But many of the most notorious Nazis escaped, including Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann. Martin Bormann, the Fuehrers private secretary, was rumored to be living everywhere from the Soviet Union to South America.

Almost three decades later, CIA agent Matt Corcoran is sent to Bad Nauheim to investigate possible Soviet involvement in the theft of US Army munitions. He hears whispers of German Reds blowing up NATO ammo dumps, neo-Nazis aiding the Arab cause against Israel, and a plot to assassinate the German chancellor. Corcoran soon begins to suspect that behind the turmoil is an organization as diabolical as it is improbable: a cadre of loyal Nazi officers, under the command of Bormann, who are bent on bringing about the Fourth Reich.

As action-packed as The Odessa File and The Boys from Brazil, The Strasbourg Legacy is first-class suspense from an acclaimed historian of World War II, the New York Timesbestselling author of The Fall of Japan.

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Furious-paced. Kirkus Reviews

Non-stop action... barrels along to a thrilling and quite unexpected climax. Bestsellers

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William Craig (19291997) was an American historian and novelist. Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, he interrupted his career as an advertising salesman to appearon the quiz show Tic-Tac-Dough in 1958.With his $42,000 in winningsa record-breaking amount at the timeCraig enrolled at Columbia University and earned both an undergraduate and a masters degree in history. He published his first book, The Fall of Japan, in 1967. A narrative history of the final weeks ofWorld War IIin the Pacific, it reached the top ten on theNew York Timesbestseller list and was deemed virtually flawless bythe New York Times Book Review. In order to writeEnemy at the Gates(1973), a documentary account of the Battle of Stalingrad, Craig travelled to three continents and interviewed hundreds of military and civilian survivors. ANew York Timesbestseller, the book inspired a film of the same name starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes. In addition to his histories ofWorld War II, Craig wrote two acclaimed espionage thrillers:The Tashkent Crisis(1971) andThe Strasbourg Legacy(1975).