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They thought the Nazi regime was defeated in 1945. They were wrong. The evil simply went corporate.A gripping novel based on the shocking true story of Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, and his second, more powerful life. In the rubble of World War II, a deadly deal was struck. Klaus Barbie, the infamous Gestapo ""Butcher of Lyon"" responsible for the deaths of thousands, was not hunted down. He was recruited. Given a new identity by American intelligence, he was smuggled to South America-a hidden asset in the burgeoning Cold War. But Barbie was no ordinary fugitive. In the volatile, cocaine-rich chaos of 1970s Bolivia, he traded his SS uniform for a business suit, selling his expertise in torture and control to a corrupt military dictatorship and the emerging cartels. He became the architect of a narco-state, a consultant in terror, more powerful and untouchable than ever before. Pitted against him is Antoine Leroux, a Holocaust survivor whose family was destroyed in Barbie's Lyon cellars. For Leroux, this is not a job-it's a sacred crusade. Armed with a filing cabinet and a furious determination, he must battle a labyrinth of lies, from the silent corridors of the CIA to the brutal streets of La Paz, where Barbie is protected by generals and cocaine kingpins. Two men, locked in a decades-long duel that spans continents. One, a living embodiment of memory and justice. The other, a chilling symbol of evil's banality. The Unvanished is more than a thriller-it's a journey into the heart of a terrifying truth we let happen. Look Inside This Unflinching Historical Thriller And Discover: A high-stakes global manhunt based on declassified CIA files and true events. A chilling portrait of evil in the chillingly calm, corporate persona of Klaus Barbie. The dark history of the CIA ratlines and Operation Condor that protected Nazi war criminals. The brutal rise of the Bolivian cocaine cartels in the 1970s and 80s. A story that asks: When the world chooses to forget, who becomes the guardian of memory?

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