The Envoy

Hailed as "a master storyteller" (Booklist), Alex Kershaw routinely climbs best-seller lists with his narrative histories. In the waning months of World War II, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann sent over half a million Hungarians to their deaths at Auschwitz. But one Jewish ghetto remained, and only one man--a Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg-could stop Eichmann.