Along the same lines as the Odessa files and presumably inspired by that book this is an enjoyable work of fiction about Rudolf Hess.
An entertaining blend of fact and fiction. ( )

A very entertaining novel, based around the incarceration of Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison in Berlin following his conviction in the Nuremburg Trials after the end of the Second World War.
The novel opens with the flight of Rudolf Hess, then second in command within German's Third Reich, to Scotland in a bid to meet the Duke of Hamilton. However, the main part of the story takes place in 1984. Berlin is still divided by the Wall, and Hess remains in Spandau, guarded by a combination of British, American, French and Russian warders. By that time he is the sole inmate in Spandau, and is referred to solely as "Prisoner No. 7". However, in London three journalists are pulled off their customary duties to investigate rumours that Hess had smuggled out an illicit memoir, and that it might contain revelations of the most damaging type, with drastic implications for all four of the Allied Powers.
Lovesey has obviously conducted extensive research and he succeeds in building up great tension as the action moves between London, Berlin and St Malo.
The denouement stretched plausibility rather too far, perhaps, but the book was immensely;y entertaining. ( )

Journalists investiqate Hess's flight to England in 1941