A Broken Centavo: The Argentine

In the spring of 1945, just before the war ended, young translator Klim Danilovich Sudak is taken aboard a German submarine as a prisoner of war. He manages to escape from the sub near the shores of Argentina. But he escaped only from the German submariners—not from the Nazis. After all, in Argentina Klim ends up in places where escaped fascists have taken refuge from justice, and there survives the whole top leadership of the Reich—Müller, Bormann, Hitler, and even Eva Braun. And now Klim can’t just focus on saving his own life and returning home. He’s a Soviet man—he must join battle against the Nazis.

Besides escaped war criminals, there’s plenty of exotic adventure around: the green hell of the Amazon jungle, full of poisonous snakes, stinging insects, and cannibal pygmies; the party’s gold, for which a desperate hunt is on; Russian émigrés who have settled in South America after the Civil War; and the coastal ocean waters, where their own battles are fought. Having gone through all of this, you’ll involuntarily become a real Argentine… if, of course, you don’t die before that.