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Fatherland
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780061006623
ISBN: 0061006629
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: May 15, 1993
Publisher: HarperTorch
Studio: HarperTorch
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great premise, poor book
The story takes place in April 1964. Germany was victorious in its war against the West in WWII, but did less well in the East, where the war lingers to an unclear extent. Hitler is about to celebrate his 75th birthday, and Joe Kennedy, who is also 75, is President of the U.S.
How did anti-Semitic, Nazi appeaser Joe Kennedy come to power? Did Hitler help him do so after the war? Is he a puppet? What happened to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, whom Joe wanted to make the first in a line of Presidents? ... Read More
Rating:  - The basic plot is not believable
The book is historically accurate up to maybe 1943, then it veers off into an alternative version of history - the Germans win WWII in Europe. However, the basic premise of the book is that the Death Camps are not discovered by 1964 (the book is set in '64) and only 14 people knew about the Death Camps and all but 2 of the 14 have been killed off, then the 13th is bumped off by the bad guy #14, .... To run the Death Camps and keep it a secret is too much to believe.
Rating: - Works as both thriller and alternate history
What if Nazi Germany had won the European war? What would the world of the 1960s look like with an aging Führer still clutching the reigns of power? Those are the big questions that inform journalist and author Robert Harris' debut novel, a genuine page-turner about one German policeman's investigation of a routine corpse who turns out to be anything but routine.
I really enjoyed this novel on many levels. For one thing, it is a compelling thriller involving long-buried secrets, political assassinations, ... Read More
Rating:  - Outstanding Novel
Without question, this is a must read. Set in 1964 after Germany had won WWII, it spins a tale of life in the new Europe through the eyes of a top cop living under the regime's suppression. There are a few murders in which the main character becomes involved investigating. As the story winds on we find the real reason why people have been eliminated dating back to the war. The SS watches the cop's every move. He is safe nowhere. The job gets done in the end, though the end is a bit bittersweet. An excellent book
Rating: - Slightly Disturbing, Definitely Enjoyable Page-turner
Robert Harris's debut novel 'Fatherland' centers around an alternate history. Nazi Germany won the war, it's 1964 and the country is about to celebrate Hitler's 75th birthday. President Kennedy is coming for a visit - but dead bodies begin to show up in Berlin. Not just any old bodies either, but high-level party members with intimate knowledge of the regime's biggest secret, perhaps the darkest secret of all time.
Kriminalpolizei detective Xavier March begins to unravel the murders and the secret they are ... Read More
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