The Prosecutor

FIVE STARS --Not all superheroes wear capes. Some, as Jack Fairweather’s superb biography of the German prosecutor and judge Fritz Bauer shows, wear lawyer’s robes instead ... This is a magnificent book

FIVE STARS --Not all superheroes wear capes. Some, as Jack Fairweather’s superb biography of the German prosecutor and judge Fritz Bauer shows, wear lawyer’s robes instead ... This is a magnificent book

Fairweather tells this story with impressive clarity and pace… compulsively readable… with liberal democracies once more imperilled and indifference to the Holocaust stupefyingly widespread, The Prosecutor could hardly be more timely

Deeply humane, finely wrought and so vital tale in this age of impunity, crackingly told

Gripping and well-researched ... Fairweather’s book would be haunting to read at any time; it is especially bitter today

One of the great untold stories of the Holocaust— and Jack Fairweather is the perfect person to tell it

A tour-de-force of both historical research and absolutely terrific writing... the book itself reads like the best sort of cloak-and-dagger novel... this book was a kind of masterclass

This is a book of great importance. The Prosecutor is, quite simply, a stunning achievement.

Beautifully written and hugely evocative... a powerful literary memorial to Fritz Bauer, the German-Jewish lawyer whose tenacity forced a nation to confront its crimes

Jack Fairweather continues his stellar writing career with an important new book... this well-researched, well-written and hard-hitting book could not be more timely

A gripping and timely tale of a modest man who sacrificed his life to expose a collective guilt... In dark times, his sacrifice provides a bright beacon of light

A rich, compelling and deeply researched account of a little-known lawyer who fought long and hard to expose the criminals who underpinned Hitler’s monstrous regime. Another page-turner from Jack Fairweather

Brilliantly captures the poignant and insightful story of one lonely, determined man’s quest to bring Nazis to justice for the Holocaust...This is history not to be missed

Jack Fairweather, a brilliant researcher and compelling writer, tells the remarkable and inspiring story of German jurist Fritz Bauer [who] braved public opprobrium and personal danger to pursue the complicit and compel a national reckoning with its crimes. A triumphant story.

Breathtaking scholarship delivered with a compelling flair for storytelling – returns the seminal figure of the courageous Fritz Bauer to his rightful place at the centre of our collective reckoning with the Nazis’ crimes

This meticulously researched and well written biography brings to life one of the unsung heroes of the twentieth century…. Fairweather brilliantly evokes the dark, morally ambiguous atmosphere of postwar Germany and a man whose story... contains the moral lessons we need today

Disturbing insights into a bygone era. . . . Stirring revelations of an unsung hero of postwar Germany

Despite the number of Holocaust-related titles that now appear in the book trade, there is usually one specific book that becomes a beacon, or flagship for the genre. The Prosecutor could very well be seen as that in the years to come… takes the reader on a page-turning adventure… paints a vivid picture of a man in a hurry to bear witness to mass-murder… Jack Fairweather has achieved something quite remarkable

Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and journalist. His last book The Volunteer won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He splits his time between the UK and Vermont.