Book description
It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier
March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate
the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious
suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs
of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And,
with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American
journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a
truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a
truth that will change history.
Robert Harris is one of Britain's most famous writers of thriller
novels and gripping historical fiction. He is the author of eight
bestselling historical and contemporary thrillers: Archangel,
Enigma, Fatherland, The Fear Index, The Ghost, Imperium, Lustrum
and Pompeii, all of which were worldwide bestsellers.
Harris has been shortlisted for three notable literary awards: the
Walter Scott prize for historical fiction, the Whitbread first novel
award (now known as the Costa Book award) and the British Book Awards
Popular Fiction Award. His most recent bestselling thriller, The
Fear Index, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger,
for best thriller of the year, at the 2012 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards.
Robert Harris has worked with international film director Roman
Polanski to create the Golden Globe winning film The Ghost
Writer, starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor. Enigma
was adapted into an award-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Tom Hollander.
His work has been translated into thirty-three languages. He was
born in Nottingham in 1957 and is a graduate of Cambridge University.
He worked as a reporter on the BBC's Newsnight and
Panorama programmes, before becoming Political Editor of the
Observer in 1987, and then a columnist on the Sunday
Times and the Daily Telegraph. In 2003 he was
named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He lives near
Hungerford in Berkshire with his wife and their four children.
