ISBN: 9780099527893    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 400        Language: English

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.
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Robert Harris is the author of 'Fatherland', 'Enigma', 'Archangel', 'Pompeii', 'Imperium' and 'The Ghost', all of which were international bestsellers. His latest novel, 'Lustrum, 'has just been published. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC's 'Panorama' and 'Newsnight' programmes, before becoming political editor of the 'Observer' and subsequently a columnist on the 'Sunday Times' and the' Daily Telegraph'. The film of 'The Ghost' - for which he co-wrote the screenplay - directed by Roman Polanski and starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan is due to be released at the beginning of 2010. He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their four children in a village near Hungerford.
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