In 1991, an old man was found dead, facedown on his floor. The murder victim had been tied up, and tape covered his mouth and nose; the cause of death ruled to be asphyxiation. By his side was an empty cassette player. Heinz Brücher’s killer was never found, and no motives were ever established. But in the years following his death, Brücher’s dark past and dangerous work were revealed. Miguel Agnello purchased Brücher’s farmhouse on the outskirts of Mendoza, Argentina, in 2002. When he entered the property, he discovered thousands of handwritten cards and small bags containing white powder. He set fire to “the whole lot” to avoid trouble. But what he ended up destroying was the personal archive of one of the third Reich’s leading scientists. Brücher, it would be discovered, had been plotting a master strategy to wipe out the cocaine trade.
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