He had been aiding the Americans as they rooted out some deeply-entrenched Nazi leaders using methods for extracting confessions from them that were not necessarily "by the book". One man - Simon - a Nazi-hunter and Holocaust survivor with a penchant for finding and bringing Nazis to the authorities, is particularly interested in locating his personal list of former Nazi leaders still at large. The Allied forces are unaware that an underground group of former Nazi leaders (called the "88") are secretly working together to restore the Third Reich. There is an effort underfoot to return Germany back to local control. The first half of the book gives background for the series: Following the defeat of the Nazis and the trials at Nuremberg, Occupied Berlin is controlled by the American, British, and Russian forces. Who would have thought that being a Nazi hunter could be so suspenseful and exciting? Mostly I enjoyed being reminded of what now seems like a regrettably brief and anomalous period in human history when it was the fascists and not the Jews who were scared. Then too, it's not like Wiesenthal himself was exactly rigorous with the facts of his life. For myself, I think it takes the times seriously enough to justify its looseness with the facts, and it's not like people weren't telling similar stories pretty much as soon as the shooting stopped, as in Jacques Tourneur's 1948 Berlin Express, partially filmed in the actual ruins. Nevertheless, I'm sure for some people questions of tastefulness will remain, and I wouldn't blame anyone who decided against reading it on those grounds. Despite being told in black, white and occasional splashes of red, this is less Sin City pulp than the serious end of noir, the sort using it to talk seriously about the sheer monstrousness of which humans are capable. Do you know what? I was right." Simon Wiesenthal's attempts to track down Nazis who escaped justice, reimagined as a two-fisted thriller. I never would have thought I'd be welcomed in this place. Generally this was an interesting read and I would definitely like to read the next volume.Ĭopy provided by Eidelweiss in exchange for an unbiased review. This is an arc copy so I hope these errors will be resolved before the book is published because the typos and errors interrupted my reading and took me out of the story which is a pity. There is also a glaring error in the verse from the book of Genesis which should be chapter 1 instead of 3 and there are other typos here and there. My only problem with this book is that it had a few typos and it tinkers with historical facts for e.g Eichmann's children were never killed and yet in this book they are referred to as having been killed. The story is quite gripping and it left me wanting to know more about the real Wiesenthal. The graphics are good, mostly in black, white and red, and the use of these colours gives the novel a dark kind of feel which could actually be described as noir. Even when the Americans and the Russians decided to end the hunt for Nazi's, Simon recognising this as a process of justice continued to hunt and bring them to justice. As I was reading this graphic novel I realised that this comic, although fictional, is actually based on the story of Simon Wiesenthal who tracked down Nazi's after the end of World War Two.
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