Searching for a killer of Nazi war criminals, an ex-spy finds an unlikely ally.
“Given the humor and grit he liked
to mix in his suspense novels, Ross Thomas would rejoice at Johnny Heller’s
versatile and often hilarious performance of this work. It is set in 1946 and
features unemployed former OSS op Minor Jackson and Polscaru, a Romanian dwarf
who hires him to find a young German-Jewish assassin who won’t stop killing
Nazis—war or no war. The accents are huge fun: Texan, British, German, Polish,
Romanian, and Russian, just for a start. Meanwhile, Heller manages to make
Polscaru, a compulsive liar, double-crosser, and indefatigable ladies’ man,
weirdly charming. Not to mention the wide-eyed innocence he gives to the
assassin’s virginal sister who claims she learned all those esoteric sex
techniques from a book. Great acting. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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