Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. Max was present at the Nazi atrocities on the Eastern front, at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally at the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself.Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight.`A Great Work...Inescapably Impressive' Literary Review`Pitiless And Mesmerising' Financial Times`A Monument Of Contemporary Literature' Le Figaro
Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front.