Fatherland

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Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World 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.


© Robert Harris 1992 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

Critics Review

  • 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
  • Powerful and chilling… convincing in every detail

    Daily Telegraph

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