When fugitive Nazi Skorzeny met his match in Irish justice minister Haughey
The victim is the latest in a line of murdered foreigners, all with links to Nazi Germany, who had been given refuge by the State after the end of World War II. They are cohorts of the ex-Nazi Otto Skorzeny, “once called the most dangerous man in Europe. Now a gentleman farmer”.
Skorzeny was a real person. Neville builds his plot around the Nazi’s exile in Ireland, and a fictional manhunt for him, which gives the writer licence to explore a sordid chapter in 20th century Irish history.
