The Good Assassin

The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice from a New York Times –bestselling journalist. Inspiration for the hit podcast Hunting the Butcher Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous figure in his small Latvian city, the “Charles Lindbergh of his country”. But he was soon better known as the Butcher of Latvia, a man who murdered some thirty thousand Jews. By 1965, a statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes threatened to expire,