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The Odessa File (Mass Market Paperback)

by Frederick Forsyth (Author)
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"Every bit  as exciting as its noted predecessor and even  eerie."--Cosmopolitan.

"A carefully thought out, meticulously researched,  documented... highly suspenseful work of  fiction."--Chicago Tribune.

"Much more complex than the Jackal...  intriguingly fact packed with relentless exporting, a  protagonist propelled by an unstoppable force as  suicidal as that of a lemming, and a time-factored  chase ticking off to an explosive  climax."--The Cleveland Press.

"A highly  superior combination of real-life facts and suspense  fiction."--Publisher's Weekly -- Review

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"Every bit  as exciting as its noted predecessor and even  eerie."--Cosmopolitan.

"A carefully thought out, meticulously researched,  documented... highly suspenseful work of  fiction."--Chicago Tribune.

"Much more complex than the Jackal...  intriguingly fact packed with relentless exporting, a  protagonist propelled by an unstoppable force as  suicidal as that of a lemming, and a time-factored  chase ticking off to an explosive  climax."--The Cleveland Press.

"A highly  superior combination of real-life facts and suspense  fiction."--Publisher's Weekly

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (March 1, 1983)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553271989
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553271980
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,700 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Story to Remember, September 29, 2006
By !Edwin C. Pauzer (New York City) - See all my reviews
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Even the start of the novel is gripping, and it is fraught with coincidences. If John F. Kennedy hadn't been shot, Peter Miller would not have pulled over to listen to the radio announcement. He would have missed the ambulance that he eventually followed. As an investigative journalist he thought he might be following a story. The ambulance's destination was the suicide of an old Holocaust survivor. "No story here," the detective advises him. Shortly thereafter the detective calls to tell him that the old man left behind a diary that describes the unspeakable cruelty he experienced in a concentration camp. Miller reads the story into the night. His attention is turned to one incident he reads over and over again. The diary ends with the old man's plea that someone please say Kaddish, the Jewish Prayer for the dead, for the sake of his soul. The coincidences build from here. The next day Miller decides to hunt a Nazi camp commandant, but not for the reasons we suspect. The story takes Peter Miller through other parts of Germany and Austria where he is being chased by the people he is pursuing. The journalist eventually finds and confronts the Nazi. The ultimate coincidence is revealed. His personal mission has far-reaching consequences.

In the end we learn about the fate of the characters, some fateful and some ordinary. This was the most stirring part for me. A young Israeli paratrooper enters the Hall of Remembrance in Jerusalem. His red beret satisfies the requirement of a yarmulka, and he fulfills the request of the old man whose soul died years earlier in a concentration camp near Riga.

With Forsythe's ability to mix fact with fiction, 1964 was a year in which a number of Nazis were found and brought to justice. Stirring.

This novel is lesenvergnuegen.

Alles Gute!
ECP
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Forsyth's best book by far!!!!!!, August 6, 2001
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After reading "The Day of the Jackal", I thought that there couldn't be a better suspense thriller than this, but I still hadn't read "The Odessa File". Its set in the early 1960's, where a young freelance German journalist comes across the personal diary of an old German Jew who's committed suicide. Reading the diary through the night, the journalist, Peter Miller finds out that the Jew was a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp at Riga, Latvia during World War II. As he reads on, he's shocked by the graphic description by the Jew of the atrocities committed on the camp inmates by the camp commandant, Eduard Roschmann. Millers vows to track down Roschmann and bring him to justice. But while doing so, he comes across a super-secret organization known as Odessa, which protects Nazi ex-SS members from being captured and brought to justice. When Miller starts getting too close to the Odessa, his life is in grave danger. But he decides that it will end with him bringing Roschmann to justice for his crimes, or with his death.

"The Odessa File", as with all other Forsyth books, has a super-shocking twist in the end, where we get to know the real motive behind Miller wanting to find Roschmann. In the process, Forsyth manages to include The Beatles' short stint in Hamburg, the background of the brief Arab-Israeli war and last but not the least, Kennedy's assasination. As usual, Forsyth's factual knowledge is accurate to the point, and his research is deep and minute. "The Odessa File" is undoubtedly Frederick Forsyth at his very best.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Kameraderie, October 30, 2003
By J. H. Minde "Can you keep up?" (Boca Raton, Florida and Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews
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THE ODESSA FILE is one of Frederick Forsyth's classics. Cleverly written, meticulously researched, and absolutely readable, THE ODESSA FILE recounts the story of Peter Miller, a young German crime reporter who decides to infiltrate the secret Nazi support network in the early 1960s in order to discover the whereabouts of Captain Eduard Roschmann, "The Butcher of Riga," who sent some 80,000 people to their deaths in the Riga Ghetto.While Miller's outrage at the twisting of Germany by the Nazis is real and intense, his motivations are unclear...until the O. Henry ending.

This is fine historical fiction, melding historical figures (like Roschmann)and fictional characters (like Miller) together seamlessly.THE ODESSA FILE is an intense thriller, and rates as one of the finest and most memorable works of its genre anytime and anywhere.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It is a pity one seldom comes across a book such as this one
A superb thriller, based in a cat and mouse chase scheme, a German journalist, Peter Miller reads a diary from a Jewish survivor of a concentration camp and began to look for a... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Manuel Gwiazda

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong Sophomore Novel from Forsyth
It is 1963 and Peter Miller is a German reporter who comes across the diary of a man who lived through one of the Nazi death camps, but recently committed suicide. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Joseph Boone

4.0 out of 5 stars Riveting, until he leaves us
Another winner by Forsyth. This novel is set in 60's Germany where a reporter comes upon a diary of a Jewish man who survived the concentration camps. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Scott Walker

5.0 out of 5 stars A Favorite World War II Genre Taken to Fine Fiction Art
In this great book, Forsyth packs a punch on several levels. This book is one my favorites, one which I have read over the years again and again. Why?
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Published 9 months ago by Michael Mandaville

5.0 out of 5 stars More than a page turner
I hadn't read any Forsyth books but had three waiting to be read (this one, The Day of the Jackal and Icon) and decided to read this one first. Wow. Read more
Published 11 months ago by NoWireHangers

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader
Investigating a war criminal secret society.


A young reporter gets on the trail of a war criminal known as the Butcher of Riga, a man who was in charge of a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Blue Tyson

5.0 out of 5 stars one of my all-time favorites
This book has a bit of everything - mystery, thriller, historical fiction and some very interesting bits of history itself. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Y. Mor

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Storyteller!
Forsyth betters the best! This book is an example of how an author can take just one simple incident, a slice of life, and transform it into a thriller that leaves the reader... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Smarth Bali

5.0 out of 5 stars Very cleverly written !
This is a 1970s thriller that I suppose would be labled "historical fiction" or a "historical novel"... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Chem

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good spy novel
Forsyth has written a believable thriller. The book move along with very little padding. The characters are interesting. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Cool Reader

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