The Odessa File (1974) was the second Frederick Forsyth novel to be adapted for the big screen Fred Zinnemann's The Day of the Jackal (1973), also produced by John Woolf with a screenplay by Kenneth Ross, remains to this day one of the classic political thrillers. With the help of Israeli intelligence, he assumes the identity of a recently deceased ex-Nazi and attempts to infiltrate Odessa's carefully protected ranks, both to bring Roschmann to justice and to protect Israel from the impending missile threat. A friend of Tauber tells Miller that Roschmann is still alive under a different name, so Miller goes on a quest to locate him. It recounts Tauber's horrific experiences in the Riga concentration camp, particularly the cruelty of Eduard Roschmann, commandant and SS captain. When an elderly Jewish man named Solomon Tauber commits suicide, reporter Peter Miller gets hold of his diary. It needs only a missile guidance system, which is in fact being developed in Germany by scientists associated with Odessa, a secret society of former SS officers from Hitler's regime. The year is 1963, and Egypt has amassed an arsenal of rockets aimed toward Israel.
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