'FIVE STARS ... Magnificent' Telegraph 'Compulsively readable' Financial Times 'Gripping and
timely' The Times 'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands 'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian Junger
THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER The true story
of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes only to find
himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. At the end of the Nuremberg
trial in 1946 some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death but
hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were
ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began and the horrors of the Holocaust were in
danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable
story of Fritz Bauer a gay German Jew who survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force
his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deeply researched book
Fairweather draws on unpublished family papers newly declassified German records and
exclusive interviews to immerse readers in the dark unfamiliar world of postwar West Germany
where those who implemented genocide run the country the CIA is funding Hitler's former
spy-ring in the east and Nazi-era anti-gay laws are strictly enforced. But once Bauer lands on
the trail of Adolf Eichmann he won't be intimidated. His journey takes him deep into the
rotten heart of West Germany where his fight for justice will set him against his own
government and a network of former Nazis and spies determined to silence him. In a time when
the history of the Holocaust is taken for granted The Prosecutor reveals the courtroom battles
that were fought to establish its legacy and the personal cost of speaking out. The result is a
searing portrait of a nation emerging from the ruins of fascism and one man's courage in
forcing his people--and the world--to face the truth.
