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Name: Fatherland
Rating: 4.666666666666 (3 reviews)
Author: Robert Harris

Fatherland imagines a world where Hitler’s Germany won World War II, its capital a monumental Berlin planned by Albert Speer. In April 1964, Xavier March, a Kriminalpolizei detective, is summoned to investigate the death of a man found in a lake near Berlin’s elite suburbs. As he pieces together the body’s identity, March discovers a clandestine conspiracy that may reach the highest echelons of the Third Reich. With the Gestapo closing in, he teams up with an American journalist in a tense race to expose the truth—a truth that has already caused death, could topple governments, and reshape history.

First publish date: 1992

Genre: Thriller/Political Thriller

Authors: Robert Harris

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