Munich Wolf: The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Fhrer

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The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Fuhrer. In this brilliant standalone crime novel set in 1930s Munich, Detective Sebastian Wolff must walk a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the Nazi party he despises.

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Munich in the 1930s is a magnet for young, rich, aristocratic Brits. They come to learn German, but also to go wild, free at last from the suffocating constraints of strait-laced England. They ski in the Alps, swim in the lakes, drink in the beer cellars and fall for the charms of dashing SS officers.

What they don't see - or choose to ignore - is the cold, brutal, underbelly of the Nazi movement which considers Munich its spiritual home.

But not every German is a Nazi. Murder squad detective Sebastian Wolff is one of those walking a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the political party he abhors.

When a high-born English girl is murdered, Wolff is ordered to solve the crime. He has a fine record and, importantly, he is fluent in English. But he realises the mission is a poison chalice, for Hitler is taking a personal interest in the case - as is his young English acolyte Miss Unity Mitford.

Wolff is hemmed in on all sides. At work, he is watched closely by the secret police, at home he could be denounced at any moment by his own son, a fervent member of the Hitler Youth.

And when he begins to suspect that the killer might be linked to the highest reaches of the Nazi hierarchy, he fears his task is simply impossible - and that he will become the killer's next victim.

Praise for Rory Clements:

'Master of the wartime spy thriller' - FT
'Rich in deception' - DAILY EXPRESS
'A dramatic, twisty thriller' - DAILY MAIL
'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' - GUARDIAN
'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Reviews

'The master of the wartime spy thriller' - FT

'Rory Clements combines the talents of a superb storyteller with the unerring eye of a first-rate historian. His new novel Munich Wolf is a murder investigation with international political implications set in Hitler's Munich. Clements's depiction of Munich in the dark and frightening summer of 1935 - with its salons and beer halls, cafes and restaurants favoured by Hitler and his intimate coteries, and the seamy clubs and extravagant parties favoured by SS officers and the overly indulged and uninhibited daughters of English aristocrats - are so accurate and vivid that you will think you have been transported back to this highly-charged time in the Bavarian capital city.' - Dr David I Hall, author of Hitler's Munich: The Capital of the Nazi Movement

Author Bio

RORY CLEMENTS is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger, and again for Nucleus in 2018. A TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development.

He is a consistent Sunday Times bestseller and has sold over 400,000 prints copies of his 15 novels to date.

Rory lives in Norfolk with his family. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk.