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
A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock
Guardian
Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep
Sunday Times
Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove
Independent on Sunday
A fantastic thriller... The final solution is an utter surprise. Harris reaches it with speed, conveying a whole culture of grotesquery and kitsch
Mail on Sunday
Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written
Esquire

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Already a classic so its plot has permeated into the conscience. But a fantastic read. Suspense throughout. Timely reminder in these difficult times of what happened.
Definitely worth the read.
Very well read.
hallwiton 09/11/2025

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