Fatherland: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson Mandela April, 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel . . . 'Robert Harris has created the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep' Sunday Times 'Powerful and chilling . . . convincing in every detail' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and ingenious . . . its breeding is by Orwell, out of P.D. James, a detective story inside a future shock' Daily Mail There are currently two different covers and possibly a mix of stock until December 2022. They will be assigned at random.

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The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express *
The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express *
Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock * Daily Mail *
Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarr are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class * The Times *
The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times *

Author Bio

Robert Harris is the author of eleven bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and Conclave. His forthcoming book, Munich, coming out in September 2017, is set over the four days of the Munich Conference, and is filled with the real-life characters and events of the time. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.