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A murder in 1960s Nazi Germany draws one Berlin detective into a greater mystery than he could have ever imagined. Or could he?

The great thing about Fatherland is that Robert Harris doesn't try to do too much with the counterfactual history. It's definitely there, of course, but the reader discovers it naturally as (fictional) historical details come up in the flow of the novel. There is no heavy-handed explanation of how this alternate history diverged from the history we know, no listing of all the important differences as a result of that divergence, etc. And that leaves the reader wanting to know more, excited whenever details are revealed. The fact that the novel also features a great story that is interesting both on its own and in relation to this counterfactual history also helps, of course.