The Accomplice Audiobook (Free)

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

“Gripping and authentic…Kanon’s imagination flourishes [and] the narrative propulsion is apparent. A thoroughly satisfying little bit of entertainment that extends a tentacle into some significant moral representation.” —THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review

The “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) Joseph Kanon returns using a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel in regards to a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be useless, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and about The Accomplice the stunning woman connected to them both.

Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw like a prisoner at Auschwitz—nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who delivered Max’s family to the gas chambers. As the battle came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officials who were able to escape Germany for new lives in SOUTH USA, where leaders like Argentina’s Juan Perón provided them secure harbor and fresh identities. Along with his existence nearing its end, Utmost asks his nephew Aaron Wiley—an American CIA table analyst—to complete the duty Max under no circumstances could: to track down Otto in Argentina, catch him, and provide him back again to Germany to stand trial.

Unable to deny Max, Aaron travels to Buenos Aires and discovers a city where Nazis thrive in basic view, mingling with Argentine high society. He ingratiates himself with Otto’s alluring but wounded child, whom he’s confident is hiding her dad. Enlisting the help of a German newspaper reporter, an Israeli agent, as well as the obliging CIA station main in Buenos Aires, he hunts for Otto—a complicated monster, unexpectedly human being but still capable of murder if cornered. Unable to differentiate allies from enemies, Aaron will eventually have to discover not only Otto, but the boundaries of his own private morality, what lengths he is prepared to head to render justice.

“With his remarkable emotional precision and mastery of tone” (Kirkus Reviews, starred examine), Joseph Kanon crafts another compelling and unputdownable thriller that will keep you breathlessly turning the pages.