Helmut Ortner

Born in 1950, Helmut Ortner has written over thirty books, mostly on social topics and on issues of justice. Helmut’ s previous works include The Lone Assassin, the remarkable true story of Georg Elser, a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate, but unsuccessful, assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders at the Bü rgerbrä ukeller in Munich on 8 November 1939. Helmut’ s books have been translated into many languages. He lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.