Skorzeny: Dancing With the Devil

by Hugo Gerstl

1943: The tide of the war has turned against Hitler. His ally and mentor Benito Mussolini is deposed, imprisoned, and hidden. A single duel-scarred Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny leads expert gliders to the top of the highest peak in the Apennines to rescue the captured Duce.

October 1944: Hungary’s ruler Admiral Miklós Horthy is about to defect to the Soviets. Hitler’s hitman kidnaps Horthy’s son and advises Horthy it’s time to “retire” if he ever wants to see his son alive again.

December 1944: The Battle of the Bulge. Hitler’s favorite operator, Otto Skorzeny, using two thousand stolen American Army uniforms, leads a group of English-speaking German commandos behind enemy lines and wreaks confusion throughout the front.

That same relentless man helps former SS members get to safety in South America, and in Argentina he becomes Juan Péron’s security chief and Eva Péron’s lover; he trains Arab forces and Yasser Arafat for the next war against Israel; he sells arms to rival sides throughout Africa; and, ultimately, after Israeli intelligence discovers his involvement in building Egypt’s threatening missile force, he sheds his skin, turns into a Mossad agent, and remorselessly “takes out” the very group of German nuclear scientists Egypt recruited to destroy Israel!

Otto Skorzeny did all these things and more. An unrepentant Nazi, this ultimate predator, the most dangerous man in the world, lived more lives than a dozen James Bonds.

International multi-best-selling author Hugo N. Gerstl brings the life of this amazing hero/villain, now almost forgotten, back into the limelight where, during the time he lived, he made the world a much more exciting—and scary—place.

An English-Language eBook edition was published in late 2018 bySWS ,Inc., CA.

 A Romanian edition has been scheduled for publication in fall 2019.