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In this story Hunter Thompson returns to the world in 1957 after he gets out of the Air Force. His childhood friend Jordan is waiting for him as they prepare to hunt down Nazis still operating throughout the world. The commitment of Hunter and Jordan goes back to a promise made to their second grade teacher, Sister Ansilio, that they would pursue these bad people when they grew up. Tom Charlebois is their mentor. He was with the French Resistance during World War II and is still pursuing Nazis wherever they are.
Their baptism for Nazi hunting starts at the Holy Grail of English military intelligence, Bletchley Park. From that auspicious beginning our young Nazi hunters begin their travels. Off to the Kremlin with the Ravenmaster from the Tower of London. A meeting with Nazi prosecutor Feodor Petrovich (a name borrowed from Crime and Punishment) brings the mission to a new reality for Hunter and Jordan. Then off to Puerto Rico to chase down one of the largest rum companies in the world rum by a gang of former SS members.
While in Puerto Rico the young Nazi chasers learn more Nazi thieves are running the largest food company in Central America. Hunter and Jordan receive help from amazing leaders in finance and Nazi hunting, including a famous Rockefeller and the great Simon Wiesenthal. There is a brief interlude where Hunter and Jordan go to the play West Side Story to show moral support for their mentor Tom Charlebois’s friend, musical director Lenny Bernstein, who was unfairly blacklisted, compliments of J. Edgar Hoover.
Tom Charlebois has associates around the world. Our boys are sent to Chicago and onto Norte Dame to meet with Father Ted Hesburgh who possesses a top secret FBI report about an ongoing Nazi enterprise in Chicago being run by a former Nazi terrorist. More work for the young hunters.
California calls next. Another liquor empire to take down. This one created from funds stolen by the Vengerhagen brothers of Hamburg Germany, prominent lawyers who stole money from their Jewish clients. Jordan’s uncle Larry helps the young Nazi hunters track down Otto and Gus Venger. Nazi hunters help with the complicated takeover of this sprawling business worth a fortune. How to bring justice when the victims are no longer with us?
“Simon Wiesenthal, we know why you are here. And we know what we did was wrong,” Gus Vengerhagen said. “We did not intend to steal the money, no matter what you think, Mr. Wiesenthal. It’s just what happened. The Jews all disappeared from our city.”
“They didn’t disappear,” Hunter said. “Do we look like idiots? Are you insane? Didn’t you have a mother or a father who told you not to lie?”
“No sir,” Gus and Otto said at the same time.
“We know what happened. They were taken away,” Gus Vengerhagen said. “We thought we could protect the money. That they would be released at some point. But that never happened. So, we left Hamburg, fearing the Nazis would target us as business accomplices of the Jews.”
“That is the stupidest excuse I ever heard,” Hunter said. “Don’t you have a conscience? Why didn’t you help save the Jews?”
“I guess we were afraid,” Otto said.
“You’re alive and they’re dead. There were twenty thousand Jews in Hamburg. Some escaped, but eight thousand were killed during the Nazi years. At the end of the war, there were less than two thousand Jews in Hamburg,” Simon said.
So this story goes. Many more tales of Nazi thieves or killers.
A classic scene in New York City is when Hunter and Jordan meet up with the VonStempler twins who worked with SS General Reinhart Heydrich, the Blonde Beast aka the Butcher of Prague.
Tom enlists the help of Nazi fighter and Jewish crime boss Meyer Lansky to unravel the sale to the mob of the Bohemian Crown Jewels.
While meeting with Lansky and associates at the Algonquin Hotel Round Table, Ernest Hemingway stops by to get an update on communists in Cuba.
This Nazi shakedown of the Bohemian Crown Jewel thieves continues in New Jersey. Angelo Bruno of Philadelphia, known as the Gentle Don and Carlo Gambino of New York provide visual reinforcement for Lansky.
As Hunter says, the saga continues with more tales from the wide world of fascist Nazis.