Interview with author John Connolly
John Connolly's best known for the Charlie Parker Series.
"A Song of Shadows" is one of Charlie Parker's recent novels. Can you tell us about the plot?
Over
a number of years I’d become interested in the hunt for the last of the
old Nazis, particularly in the US. It came out of following the case
of a man named Hans Breyer, who was accused of being a guard at
Auschwitz, leading the US authorities to spend many years trying to
extradite him to Germany to face trial. Breyer died the night before he
was to be put on the plane, so he escaped justice at the last. I had
assumed that the Allies spend decades hunting these people since the end
of WWII, but in fact there was no interest in making them face trial
for at least thirty years, largely because the Allies struck a deal with
the worst of them in return for information about the Soviet Union. It
was a massive moral collapse, and so A Song of Shadows is an
exploration of that collapse.
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