The Linz Tattoo

It is 1948.  Inar Christiansen, a Norwegian studying cello in New York, undertakes an ambitious and dangerous plan—to track down and destroy the members of an SS troop who murdered his parents and most of the citizens of his hometown in Norway during the war.  Christiansen to especially intent on finding Colonel Hagemann, the sadistic director of a concentration camp during the war who masterminded the destruction of his town.  But the only way to find Hagemann is by finding Esther Rosensaft, the beautiful, mysterious Jewess who was Hagemann's mistress during the war.  Christiansen embarks upon a frenzied search throughout Europe, a search that leads to Nazis in hiding, Israeli spies, and a deadly secret that could lead to another holocaust.