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Fatherland
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It is the 1960’s in Berlin. American President and Nazi sympathizer Joseph Kennedy has at long last agreed to meet with the Fuehrer. Fatherland presents an alternate history in which Germany won WW II, without taking out China or the United States. A Berlin detective is called to investigate a murder, sees connections among various disappearances and follows them despite interference from his superiors. He encounters a young American journalist who turns out to be key to the whole caper. What is the great secret that the SS does not want him to find? We know, but the world in this environment does not. Will he get the information out in time to foil the meeting (and corresponding approval) and label the Nazis for the psycho killers they really are? It is a fast-paced fun read, even though we can guess much. The characters are simple without being ridiculous. A film was made of this with Rutger Hauer in the lead. I recall it was ok, but nothing special. It certainly left behind much of the detail of the book.
[Although I read the book and wrote the above in 2008, it appears that it was never posted. Oops]
[Although I read the book and wrote the above in 2008, it appears that it was never posted. Oops]
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Twentieth anniversary edition? Wow, I guess this HAS been on my to-read list for a while...
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I have no idea what printing of the book I read, whether it was the 20th anniversary or not. I but I read it quite a while back. And there are plenty of items on my TBR mountain that are of similar vintage.
My mother bought it when it came out in paperback and then gave it to me. Looks like that was...yep, 1993. Well, if she wanted it back I guess she would've said something.
Maybe after you read it
Haha, yes, it would be funny to see if she even remembered giving it to me. I recently ran into a high school friend who asked if I wanted back the copy of The Sword of Shannara I loaned him when we were 15. (I don't.) He still hadn't read it.
I still have an Anne Rice somewhere that I borrowed (really, my friend sort of insisted) back in the 80s.
Books that are foisted you don't count ;-)
Unless you read them foistSorry
thjs book is a waste of time to read i wish i never bought this
this book is horrible i won't a re-fund tell me more why you wrote thks and was it good writing this?
It was fine, nothing outstanding. I liked Odessa File by the Day of the Jackel's author much better.
Asghar wrote: "It was fine, nothing outstanding. I liked Odessa File by the Day of the Jackel's author much better."I agree it was nothing special, but not bad either.
Yep, entertaining yes but nothing quite good enough to recommend to others . When we love a book, we can't stop talking about it.. I don't see that happening with this one . It was competent but that's it.
