Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice »

GUY WALTERS is a former Times of London reporter and is the author or editor of six books about the Second World War and the Nazi period: four thrillers including The Traitor, a collection of WWII memoirs and a critically acclaimed history of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.  He lives in England with his wife and two children. For more information, visit his website, http://www.guywalters.com

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); "a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping... deserves a lasting place among histories of the war." (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives.

At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party. Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers. Aided and abetted by prominent...

The Washington Post - Deborah E. Lipstadt

Much of what Walters tells is not new, but it bears retelling, and he does so in a gripping, well-documented fashion…Ultimately, Hunting Evil reminds us that there must be a moral limit to how much a country dirties its hands, even when pragmatism tempts it to ignore war criminals' misdeeds.