Robert Harris

"Rejacketed reissue 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.

Fatherland

Harris, Robert

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy. Meanwhile, Berlin Detective Xavier March -- a disillusioned but talented investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake. When a dead man turns out to be a high-ranking Nazi commander, the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately. Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine. Now obsessed by the case, March teams up with a beautiful, young American journalist and starts asking questions...dangerous questions. What they uncover is a terrifying and long-concealed conspiracy of such astonding and mind-numbing terror that is it certain to spell the end of the Third Reich -- if they can live long enough to tell the world about it.

Intresting as speculative dystopian fiction, pretty run-of-the-mill as a thriller. I really find more value in the former - maybe this should be next year's Robert Harris Oscar-nominee adaptation. Though I am sure it will still fly over some people's heads.

A. D. Knapp

Not bad. Tips more into mystery and less into the alt-history than I'd hoped, but all-in-all a solid read.

Amazing novel let down only by the overly descriptive and slow start.

Jim Hagan

Tamara Hazlehurst 

I read this because my History teacher recomended it to me, it was a good read and i couldnt put the book down

Cerys

An extremely captivating novel, that I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys historical fiction. This book kept me reading and always on the edge of my seat wondering what the next step in the novel would be. However, even though the ending did leave me thinking, personally I was rather disappointed. Yet, this is not a subject in which people who I know that have also read this book agree on so I would very much recommend to you can have your own opinion.

Karim Nas

A gripping detective story set in a dystopian alternate-universe with a dramatic ending.

Luca Conti

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Kemie G

Hitler hat den Krieg gewonnen - Nazideutschland beherrscht ganz Europa. Das ist das Horrorszenario in Robert Harris' frivolem Politthriller. “Harris versteht, gut und spannend zu schreiben. Es kommt alles vor: Verbrechen, Verschwörungen, Vertuschung, Irreführung, Gewalt und Liebe. Harris kann den Historiker nicht verleugnen - so würzt er seine Geschichte mit historischen Dokumenten.” DIE ZEIT

Fatherland

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