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Fatherland
- Author
- Robert Harris
- Narrator
- Michael Jayston
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 20 November 2014
- Run Time
- 11 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (3 reviews)
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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
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The research is extraordinary.
Daily Express
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Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock
Daily Mail
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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
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The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement
The Times
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Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail
Daily Telegraph
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A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock
Guardian
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Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep
Sunday Times
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Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove
Independent on Sunday
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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
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Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written
Esquire
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
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 2025-11-09
Details
- Author
- Robert Harris
- Narrator
- Michael Jayston
- Duration
- 11 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 November 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473517325
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Alternative history fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(3 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(3 reviews)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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
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