Sixties of the twentieth century. German journalist Kurt Steiner collects information about a female surgeon who served in the SS troops. Trying to blackmail one of the leaders of a neo-Nazi organization with this information, Steiner dies. Investigating the death of Kurt, his wife learns that the same woman surgeon was the last Habsburg princess, who, by the will of fate, ended up in Nazi Germany and ended up in a concentration camp. However, thanks to a fleeting acquaintance with Otto Skorzeny, she goes from being a prisoner to the very top of the SS hierarchy. “The Revenge of Thanatos” is the first novel by the German journalist and military historian Michel Gaven, which brought him fame in Germany.