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Fatherland

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
Terrific story. Also, a valuable lesson in what the outcomes can be when a people embrace fascism.

Outstanding

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Much better than I expected, I'm not really a fan of crime or spy fiction or of war fiction, given this combines elements of all three I was expecting not to like it but I did and it kept me gripped all the way to the end. There are many twists and turns in the plot which kept the story very engaging and there are characters that are well devised and likeable without being the usual superman type that is too often found in this genre of fiction. The villains are a little more stock but not all of them.

The reader does a great job and helps create atmosphere and tension.

Overall a really good listen and best of all it was on the Audible daily deal for £2.

Good story, well written and well read

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Well plotted thriller with unusual setting. A warning from history to all middle of the road voters of the risks they take voting with or for right wing extremists as the German population did voting for Hitler in 1933. Effectively we rescued them from living with their mistakes long term but this book gives a taste of what might have been if we had not succeeded. Brexit voters beware of right wing extremists!

Nail biting till the end

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One to make us all think ....What could have been and almost was ..

Harris At His Best

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would recommend to anyone with an interest in WW2 . Really had me thinking and second guessing.

Great book

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