Part One Of Two Parts An international sensation on publication, AFTERMATH is the story of Ladislas Farago's hunt for and subsequent confrontation with Martin Bormann, former head of the Nazi Party chancery and secretary to the Fuhrer. Backed by interviews, documents and secret files, the author tells how Hitler's vast fortune found its way to South America; of Peron's complicity in aiding the Nazi war criminals; of the FBI's search for Bormann in 1948. AFTERMATH skillfully follows the escape, life in exile and activities of the former Reichsleiter.
Ladislas Farago was a military historian and journalist who published a number of best-selling books on history and espionage, especially concerning the World War II era.
He was the author of Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, the biography of General George Patton that formed the basis for the film "Patton" and wrote The Broken Seal, one of the books that formed the basis for the movie ''Tora! Tora! Tora!''.
One of his more controversial books was Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich .