A review by bmwpalmer
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb

4.0

This book didn't hit its stride until about halfway through. The beginning was very weak - aside from Eichmann, there is no one standout character. It's all a mess of 20- and 30-something newly minted Israeli Jewish men cluttering up a crowded background. I needed a hero to root for, to get behind, and there really wasn't one. The narrative suffered as a result. I realize that may have been how it was in real life, but if you take a look at the footnotes, Bascomb took plenty of liberties with the story (choosing one version of "truth" over another equally "truthy" version), so he could have spun a central hero out of one of the men while he was at it.

But once Hunting Eichmann hit its stride, it was quite good. Still, I think I'll re-read [b:One Day in September|29794|One Day in September The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"|Simon Reeve|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168047307s/29794.jpg|30214] soon - that's a finer specimen of a Revenge of Mossad story.