The Edit

An ex-Nazi on the run narrates this chilling novel of suspense in which he will do whatever it takes to keep his vicious past from being exposed. On the coast of Central America, an aging man sits down to pen his memoirs. He begins with his childhood in Vienna, just after World War I, when his family lived in respectable poverty and his greatest pleasure was an evening spent being rocked to sleep in the lap of his beloved babysitter. It would be a sweet tale if the author could withhold what comes later, but he intends to tell every horrifying detail of the truth. He's a war criminal—a veteran of the elite Nazi brigade known as the SS—and he'll write proudly of every atrocity he can recall. Distracting him from his work is inquisitive American journalist Kate O'Brien, who has come in search of a story. When Kate accidentally comes across his pages, the man has no choice but to act, kidnapping her and locking her in his basement. His latest...