num_pages: 380
description: 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…What if Hitler had won?Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. 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.
language: English
title: Fatherland
titlecomplete: Fatherland
characters: Max Jaeger, Karl Krebs, Xavier March, Josef Bühler, Rudolf Halder, Pili March, Charlotte Maguire, Artur Nebe, Hermann Jost, Henry Nightingale, Wilhelm Stuckart, Odilo Globočnik
genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Historical, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery, War, Fiction, Alternate History
ratings_count: 46015
places: Germany, Berlin
publisher: Harper Paperbacks