Hanns and Rudolfis a stunning work of historical profiling, a gripping narrative of the pursuit and capture of evil personified, and the untold story of the Jewish investigator who was crucial in ensuring justice at Nuremburg. It's 1945. Hanns Alexander, a German Jew lucky enough to escape to England in the 1930s, is a young officer in Britain's vastly under-resourced war crimes team. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of over 2 million men, women, and children, but was the mastermind behind perfecting Hitler's ordered program of mass extermination. His testimony is crucial to the Allies' case unfolding in Nuremberg. And, as of May, Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins. In a little over a year, the two men will meet in a farm in northern Germanyan encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Hanns and Rudolfreveals the full, exhilarating account of Höss's capture for the very first time. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps, it tells the story of two German menone Jewish, one Catholicwhose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.