Eichmann in My Hands: A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner

Written by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein

Narrated by Jonathan Davis

In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street—and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there—was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story—from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.



The result is a portrait of two men. One, a freedom fighter, intellectually curious and driven to do right. The other, the dutiful Good German who, through his chillingly intimate conversations with Malkin, reveals himself as the embodiment of what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." Singular, riveting, troubling, and gratifying, Eichmann in My Hands "remind[s] of what is at stake: not only justice but our own humanity" (New York Newsday).



Now Malkin's story comes to life on the screen with Oscar Isaac playing the heroic Mossad agent and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley playing Eichmann in Operation Finale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Apr 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977339980

Peter Z. Malkin

Peter Zvi Malkin was an Israeli secret agent, an intelligence legend, and member of the Mossad intelligence agency.  

Reviews for Eichmann in My Hands

[Farhad Rajabi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

When Eichmann was captured I was only 15 years old. Did not know anything about him but I had heard about atrocities that Nazy’s committed during Second World War specially against Jews in all the occupied territories. I had many friends who were Jews at my high school and since we were close friends I could not understand the reason why about this animosities of Nazy’s against Jews. But by reading newspapers I came to learn the horrors that Nazy Germany had committed against Jews and Eichmann was the mastermind of this horror. Anyway the details of the capture was not known to me until I read this book written by one of the leaders of the operation. It is well written and kept me hook to listening to the book to learn how everything evolved. I recommend this book to everyone specially who is curious about the events that marked history. Beautiful book and I loved it...

[Daniel Carlson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Riveting account of a major moment in history where justice is done and a detailed reflection is given. Loved it.

[vladimiro sousa · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very powerful account of what happen. Interesting perspective of the fearless generation raise into manhood after the war, feeling that the Holocaust would not happen to them. Also the connections between the reality and the personal ties with religion and God.

[Adir Puterman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Outstanding and harrowing personal account of the capture of the notorious & infamous Adolph Eichmann.