Mister Wolf

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Beschreibung

<b>The new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed </b><i><b>The Butchers of Berlin, </b></i><b>soon to be a TV series</b><p><b>Berlin, July 1944</b>, a world of illicit jazz clubs, sexually generous young women, suspect art dealers, last-ditch zealots and a city defined by crumbling infrastructure, advanced terror, dirty secrets and deep politics - and then there is August Schlegel, caught askance in a web of totalitarian mayhem.</p><p>Everybody knows what happened on 20 July: Führer Adolf Hitler miraculously survived an assassination attempt when a bomb failed to kill him. Schlegel, a reluctant employee of the Gestapo, finds himself in the foolhardy position of questioning the official version, knowing it is the last thing he should be thinking. Was it a propaganda stunt, or a deception or was something more extreme going on, perhaps a cover-up connected to the mysterious burning down of a Berlin clinic? A deadly political dance takes Schlegel all the way up to Party Secretary Martin Bormann, the Chancellory's sinister 'black pope'.</p><p>Information is controlled, informers are everywhere, secrecy remains the cornerstone of the regime, yet someone appears interested in digging up a carefully buried scandal in the Führer's past private life, an incestuous affair with his young niece that ended mysteriously in 1931. Rumours circulate of a 'Hitler confession'.</p><p>Trapped in a kingdom of lies, Schlegel discovers the blighted present and a censored past are connected in ways he could never have imagined. The niece's tragic end is intimately bound up with the fate of his long-lost father, whom Schlegel had always believed absconded to Argentina and died there, until he finds a private 1925 edition of <i>Mein Kampf</i>, dedicated to 'Anton Schlegel', signed, 'In eternal gratitude, Adolf Hitler.'</p><p>The identity of Schlegel's father - and whether he is still alive and operating as a secret puppet master - becomes inseparable from the enigma of a shapeshifting

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781471171468

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

31 x 135 x 199 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon & Schuster UK