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Fatherland

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By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: Michael Jayston
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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

 20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Military Espionage Exciting Scary Funny War
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Critic reviews

The research is extraordinary.
Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock
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 highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement
Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail
A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep
Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove
A fantastic thriller... The final solution is an utter surprise. Harris reaches it with speed, conveying a whole culture of grotesquery and kitsch
Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written
All stars
Most relevant
I remember seeing a movie about alternative history, world in which Germany won the war and Hitler triumphed with his sick ideas and philosophy. Great Reich without Poland, Russia, Baltic States and all other Slavic countries. And without Jews.
Now I found a book on which that movie was based. And the story is much more terrifying and only now I realise that movie didn't do it justice.
Germany 1960s. Grey world full of uniformed people, buildings bigger and talked then anywhere else and in their shadows police investigation. One corpse leads to another, and another, and another. An American journalist, an officer of SS, friends, traitors, corruption, betrayal, death. And at the fringes, slowly coming to the front, dug out from the past the terrible truth: what has happened to all the Jews from Europe.
Gripping. And terrifyingly good.

Formidable story, gripping and frighteningly realistic

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An amazing story ,set in an alternate chilling history. The depth of characters and the descriptive settings really do conjure up a frightening alternate Europe, with Berlin being the jewel in the crown of nazi germany that is desperately trying to rewrite the past . If you like your history and fancy a twist that is not to farfetched then this is the book for you .

Utter brilliance

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loved it. vivid descriptions and fascinating details bring this novel to life. masterful use of suspense. immerse yourself in this alternative universe.

rich and scenic

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The alternate history only provides the platform on which is built an excellent story of subterfuge and pursuit. This is not a WWII novel- it is much more a Cold War novel of Le Carre - think of A Small Town In Germany. Jayston is terrific as always - and this is altogether a dark and thought provoking listen - particularly so in these dark times...

Reads like a vintage Le Carre

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Excellent take on an alternate history had me gripped from the start to the finish

excellent

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