What if Hitler had won the war? A gripping, number one bestselling historical thriller from the award-winning master of the literary thriller genre- Robert Harris.
Robert Harris is the author of eleven 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, and Conclave. His forthcoming book, Munich, coming out in September 2017, is set over the four days of the Munich Conference, and is filled with the real-life characters and events of the time. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
The research is extraordinary.
*Daily Express*
The research is extraordinary.
*Daily Express*
Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D.
James, a detective story inside a future shock
*Daily Mail*
Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarré are.
The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and
superior class
*The Times*
The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement
*The Times*
The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express *
The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express *
Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D.
James, a detective story inside a future shock * Daily Mail *
Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are.
The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and
superior class * The Times *
The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times *
An eerie, detailed alternate history serves as the backdrop for this otherwise conventional crime thriller. The setting is Berlin, 1964, some 20 years after the Third Reich's victory in WW II. Germany and the U.S., the world's two superpowers, find themselves in a cold war resulting from a nuclear stalemate; but U.S. President Joseph P. Kennedy is soon to visit Berlin for an historic summit meeting with Hitler, clearing the way for detente. Meanwhile, cynical police detective Xavier March investigates the drowning of Josef Buhler, former state secretary in the General Government. When the Gestapo takes over the case--ruling it suicide--March continues his investigation at the risk of his life, uncovering a deadly conspiracy at the highest levels of the Reich. With the help of American reporter Charlotte Maguire, he finds hard evidence of the wartime extermination of Europe's Jews, a secret that Buhler and his colleagues have been murdered to protect. Of course March and Maguire fall in love along the way. Harris ( Selling Hitler ) generates little suspense in this tale beyond his piecemeal rendering of the novel's unusual historical setting. The characters are flat and the plot largely predictable. And readers may well question the taste of using the Holocaust as the point of departure for a rather insubstantial, derivative thriller. 75,000 first printing; BOMC selection. (June)
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