Orion Six (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798988149866)

A concentration camp survivor's incredible claim. A fugitive dictator. A mission that could change history.

May 1945. The world celebrates the fall of Nazi Germany and the reported death of Adolf Hitler-yet, one young Jewish survivor sees the impossible: Hitler alive and slipping into the shadows.

Second Lieutenant Cy Jacobson, fresh from West Point and untested in real combat, is thrust into his first assignment-investigate a vast Nazi tunnel complex hidden beneath the rolling Austrian hills. There, he meets Rachel Cohen, an eighteen-year-old prisoner of a nearby German camp whose courage defies her frail frame. Rachel swears she saw Hitler escape, and her eyewitness account sets in motion a desperate, perhaps impossible, pursuit.

Forming an unlikely team-codename: Orion Six-Jacobson, Rachel, and three grizzled combat veterans embark on a perilous chase across the collapsing Third Reich. From the ruins of liberated camps to treacherous Alpine passes and into the turbulent heart of postwar Italy and its web of abbeys and monasteries, they track a deadly escape network engineered by a mysterious industrialist known only as "the Deacon." With the help of high-ranking clergy and famed SS commando Otto Skorzeny, the Germans utilize secret ratlines that stretch all the way to waiting U-boats bound for South America.

As political powers maneuver, conspiracies tighten, and the world tries to move forward, Orion Six must race against time to stop the most wanted man in history from rising again. For Jacobson, it is a trial by fire. For Rachel, it is justice. For the world, it is a second, and perhaps last, chance to end the war's darkest evil.

Inspired by persistent rumors and declassified documents, Orion Six is a high-stakes World War II thriller of courage, vengeance, and the heroic pursuit of truth-perfect for readers of Ken Follett, Jack Higgins, Robert Ludlum, and Alex Scarrow.