Last Man to Die
By (Author) Michael Dobbs
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
30th October 1991
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
War, combat and military adventure fiction
823.914
Paperback
336
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 17mm
170g
Spring 1945. The final weeks of the war. One man holds the secret that will decide the fate of post-war Europe: Peter Hencke, an unlikely hero, a German prisoner-of-war on the run. Refusing to wait for peace and the freedom it will finally bring, Hencke is fired by a personal mission that drives him to risk everything in his lonely, treacherous journey across wartime Britain, back through the battle-torn remnants of the Third Reich - to the very heart of encircled Berlin. One man faced by the mightiest armies ever assembled, pursued by the most powerful and ruthless men in Europe - and helped and loved by two of the most extraordinary women. The secret of Peter Hencke will be hidden until the very last moments of the war.
'Truly the great escape! quite simply, a good old-fashioned adventure that rattles along to a cataclysmic finale.' Daily Mail 'Thrilling escapism! what a corker, with a cunning twist in the tail. After this, the last moments of the war will never seem the same again.' Daily Express
Michael Dobbs has carved out a unique niche as the countrys leading political thriller writer, with a reputation for always being at the right hand of political controversy. In 1979 he was at Mrs Thatchers side as she took her first step into Downing Street as Prime Minister, and in 1994 John Major appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. One newspaper described him as Westminsters baby-faced hitman.