"I have to inform the Knesset that a short time ago one of the great Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, the man responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what they called the Final Solution, which is the annihilation of six million European Jews, was discovered by the Israel security services. Adolf Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will be placed on trial shortly under the terms of the law for the trial of Nazis and their collaborators." (Chapter 1, p. 3).

"Eichmann's whereabouts would probably have remained a mystery but for a combination of amateur sleuthing and dumb luck." (Chapter 1, p. 5).

"Some of the members of the Israeli team were taken aback to discover that, rather than a haughty SS officer living in splendor, they had caught a trembling factory worker in shabby underwear with false teeth." (Chapter 1, p. 17).

"A year later, when the trial was under...