Eichmann in My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

In 1960, a covert team of Israeli agents located Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, the most wanted Nazi war criminal alive and chief architect of the Holocaust. Peter Z. Malkin, a young spy, physically captured Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street. For decades, Malkin's role in the capture remained secret. He now recounts the full account: the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation, the dramatic capture, and Eichmann's smuggling to Israel for trial. The narrative presents two men in parallel. One is a freedom fighter, intellectually curious and motivated by a sense of justice. The other is Eichmann, who through intimate conversations with Malkin, emerges as embodying what Hannah Arendt termed "the banality of evil." The book explores themes of justice and humanity through this firsthand account of one of history's significant manhunts.