The Mare

A novel based on the true story of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, the first person to be extradited from America for Nazi war crimes. Braunsteiner Ryan was a female camp guard who was known as 'The Mare' in the camps for her sadistic method of kicking prisoners to death. After meeting and marrying an American electrical engineer, Russell Ryan, she moved to New York and lived a quiet suburban life until she was exposed by a journalist from the New York Times. In this highly original novel, the story is told from the first-person perspectives of both Hermine and Russell.