Secret Hunters a [Paperback]

Fiennes Ranulph (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2002

As a child, Derek Jacobs was an inmate of a Nazi prison camp and saw his mother horrifically abused. Now forging a career in the environment movement, he is co-opted by the Secret Hunters - a group who track down the perpetrators of genocide to exact their revenge.

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About the Author

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE, is the world's most celebrated contemporary adventurer and explorer. A former member of the SAS, he has been a leader of major expeditions to both poles and elsewhere in the world for over thirty years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 516 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C) (April 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751531936
• ISBN-13: 978-0751531930
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read - a must, January 8, 2004

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Padraig Mc Hale (dunshaughlin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Hunters (Hardcover)

Fascinating read i could not put it down. The gist of the story is that a Canadian Catholic named Derek Jacobs learns from his aunt that they have jewish ancestors and as a consequence the brutal inhumane sadistic tortures inflicted on jews during ww2.
His aunt tells him of a man called Karl Bendl alias Seidler raped Dereks mother and abused her during the nazi regime in ww2. Derek then in confronted by a man who tells him about an underworld organisation called the Secret Hunters who track down Nazis that have commited war crimes and to bring them to trial.
Fuelled by hate tracking down Bendl becomes an obsession and leads Derek onto a boat to Antartica by nazis who think they have found gold thus kickstarting neo nazism and a re-rise to power.
This book is gripping to the end and is not for the faint hearted as it goes into detail of what happened to the jews which some people may find unsettling. All in all i truly give it the thumbs up.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, August 6, 2004

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wing_a "Novel Connoisseur" (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Hunters (Hardcover)

As a history major with a particular interest in WWII, I found this book both riveting and horrifying.

History books tell you that Hitler systematically murdered 6 million Jews. But they don't give you the details. In "The Secret Hunters" Fiennes pulls no punches, and gives a gruesome account complete with details of how the Jews were abused by the SS in WWII.

The only reason I gave this book only four stars instead of five is that the blurb gave me the impression that I was picking up an adventure tale of a treasure-hunting journey in Antarctica. While that is the direction the last quarter of the book took, it wasn't the main focus of the narrative. There was much more about the Holocaust and its atrocities itself.

A thought provoking piece of work with an inconclusive ending that makes me wonder what happened to Derek Jacob.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nuremberg Trials a Complete Fiasco., June 14, 2004

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Paul Mekay (Carlsbad, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Hunters (Hardcover)

After listening to the 13 disk audio with narration by Christopher Kay I find that awarding only a five star rating is an injustice to both author and reader. Since the writer of the diary and the author of the book are not of the Jewish faith, it lends much credence to the events that took place. Readers with high blood pressure and a weak stomach must exercise caution when getting involved in the atrocities that took place during the Nazi regime in Germany. There is much blame to go around, but the failure to prosecute these sadists who escaped the hangman's noose and fled to a life of luxury is extremely galling. This book is definitely a page turner and very dificult to put down as the process for hunting down some of these killers gets underway. This is the first review I have ever written, but it took something this powerful and moving for me to turn on the computer and write the above. In conclusion, this is a must read!