LitPick Review
Haim, a man who escaped the holocaust by leaving Germany, has been recruited to be part of the team of spies who captured Adolf Eichmann - the organizer of all the Jewish deaths in Nazi concentration camps. Haim and the other recruits must camp out in Argentina, the country where a lot of ex-Nazis went after WWII, to look for one of Hitler's right-hand men.
While Haim is searching for Adolf Eichmann, there can be no slip-ups as his team is staying undercover. The team, under the careful eye of Haim, uses reports from all over the world to narrow down which country Adolf Eichmann is in, and then they use first-hand reports from people who think they saw him. It’s tedious work, but if Haim is careful, Eichmann will be put in front of an actual court. They cannot do anything to alert anyone at all, or their target man--who’s been hiding for years--will get away from their clutches.
In this story, the author uses actual people who hunted down Adolf Eichmann, but because no one knows for sure HOW they hunted down Eichmann, the rest of the story is made up ingeniously by D. Lawrence Young.
Opinion:
Six Million Accusers is one of my favorite LitPick books that I’ve received so far, but there were some problems with the story that I noticed. Problem number one was that the story started slowly, giving a background to Haim that I enjoyed, but the actual plot of catching Adolf Eichmann didn’t start until almost a quarter of the way through the book! The other problem I had with the book was the fact that the point of view the story jumps around every couple of chapters, and you don’t know who is talking until halfway through the chapter.
In this book, there was no Mission Impossible-like stuff because the book focuses on real-life problems. There was no room for mistakes in this kind of story! The story had a sad basis with all the characters being part of the operation for revenge and they were not getting paid. There were tales of murders, concentration camps, and death always around the corner. I give this book four stars and recommend it for ages 13 and above.
