The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis’ plans for a Final Solution before it was too late Superbly written and breathtakingly researched The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us—as if watching a movie—the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp organized a rebellion and then snuck back out We are squarely confronted with the other human truth: ordinary people will happily risk their lives to help others Fairweather has dug up a story of incalculable value and delivered it to us in the most compelling prose I have read in a long time —Sebastian Junger bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe