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Book Review of Fatherland

Fatherland
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(on back of book)It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in WWII and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the fuhrer's seventy-fifth birthday,as well as the immenient peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.Meanwhile,Berlin Detective Xavier March-a disillusioned but talented investigator-is called upon to make a routine investigation of a corpse washed up on the shore of a lake.When the dead man turns out to be a high-ranking Nazi commander,the Gestapo orders March off the case immediately.Suddenly other unrelated deaths are anything but routine.Now obsessed by the case,March teams up with a beautiful,young American journalist and starts asking questions...dangerous questions.What they uncover is a terrifying and long-concealed conspiracy of such astounding and mind-numbing terror that it is certain to spell the end of the Third Reich-if they can live long enough to tell the world about it.