Fatherland by Robert Harris
_________________________ 'The highest form of thriller . . . non-stop excitement' The Times NOW AVAILABLE: THE SECOND SLEEP, ROBERT HARRIS'S LATEST NOVEL _________________________ What if Hitler had won the war? It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
Clever and ingenious.. Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock * Daily Mail *
A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock -- NELSON MANDELA
Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep -- JOHN MORTIMER
Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail -- MARTHA GELLHORN
Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarré are. The writing is superb -- WOODROW WYATT
The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times *
Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove * Independent on Sunday *
A fantastic thriller... The final solution is an utter surprise. Harris reaches it with speed, conveying a whole culture of grotesquery and kitsch * Mail on Sunday *
Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written * Esquire *
A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock -- NELSON MANDELA
Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep -- JOHN MORTIMER
Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail -- MARTHA GELLHORN
Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarré are. The writing is superb -- WOODROW WYATT
The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times *
Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove * Independent on Sunday *
A fantastic thriller... The final solution is an utter surprise. Harris reaches it with speed, conveying a whole culture of grotesquery and kitsch * Mail on Sunday *
Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written * Esquire *
Robert Harris is the author of fifteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787460485 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787460487 |
| Title | Fatherland |
| Author | Robert Harris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2017-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
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