Eichmann in My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

Narrated by:
Jonathan Davis

Unabridged Audiobook

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4
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1
Release Date
April 2019
Duration
8 hours 59 minutes
Summary
In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street-and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there-was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story-from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.

The result is a portrait of two men. One, a freedom fighter, intellectually curious and driven to do right. The other, the dutiful Good German who, through his chillingly intimate conversations with Malkin, reveals himself as the embodiment of what Hannah Arendt called 'the banality of evil.' Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands 'remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity' (New York Newsday).

Now Malkin's story comes to life on the screen with Oscar Isaac playing the heroic Mossad agent and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley playing Eichmann in Operation Finale.
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Crompton B.

Of all the books I've every read about the kidnapping and trial of Eichmann, this is the first I have come across from the perspective of one of his kidnappers. It harkens back to a time when memory of lost family members haunted those who sought to bring the war criminal to a day of reckoning. Malkin's recollections of his emotions and description of eventual reconciliation of a search for revenge transformed to a quest for justice is well worth the small investment of time to listen.

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