The Odessa File

Peter Miller, a journalist, receives a diary from an old Jew who committed suicide. He begins to read the diary and learns that the old man was liberated from a concentration camp after the second World War and that he had spotted the in-charge of the camp recently. Peter turns in the diary to the prosecutor's office but realises they are reluctant to investigate. He then comes across a group of vigilantes who go after war criminals and deliver justice.

They help Peter infiltrate the ODESSA, a secret organization of former Nazis, who have slowly and quietly diffused back into every organization in Germany. Peter's aim to go face to face with "The Butcher of Riga" and deliver justice. If Peter succeeds in this quest forms the rest of the story authored by Frederic Forsyth.