Before World War II, Herbert Cukurs was a famous aviator in his small Latvian city, but by 1945, he was the Butcher of Latvia, killer of 30,000 Jews. By 1965, with the statute of limitations about to expire, Germany sought to welcome home its war criminals from abroad. To beat the deadline, Yaakov Meidad—the brilliant Mossad agent who had kidnapped Adolf Eichmann three years earlier—traveled to Brazil, embarking on a perilous mission to assassinate Cukurs. Recapping Cukurs's eventful life, the author of Agent Garbo also tells the tense story of Meidad's intricate plan to exact vengeance.