“Hell's Cartel is popular history at its best.” —The Seattle Times


“A damning new history... Jeffreys brings a rare combination of forensic acumen and narrative flair to bear on the material.” —Chicago Tribune

“Jeffreys expertly chronicles how this once-proud company descended into the abyss. It's a complex tale spanning a century and featuring a huge cast... He does a superb job of managing the material and drawing concise sketches of key figures. At almost 500 pages, this is a brisk read.” —Business Week

“An unputdownable narrative and forensically gripping investigation into how energetic German corporate executives became the degenerate monsters who made the Holocaust technically possible.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin

“At last, a fresh and vibrant history—free from the taint of perpetrator sponsorship and corporate influence—that brilliantly chronicles the war monster I.G. Farben. Jeffreys’s work will be consulted as a must for years to come.”” —Edwin Black, author of Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust

“Behind the guns is always the money. Diarmuid Jeffreys’s perfectly detailed vivisection of the IG Farben companies during the Nazi era is both sensible and powerful—thus a pleasure to read—and exceptionally compelling.” —Alan Furst, author of The Spies of Warsaw