morgansbored 's review for:

Fatherland by Robert Harris

4.0

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Fun alternate-history thriller set in 1964 as Germany celebrates Hitler’s 75th birthday. Harris excels at atmosphere, and his Berlin setting is a rain-soaked, monolithic nightmare as originally envisioned by Albert Speer, its people the hard-bitten citizens of a police state. The plot, characters and dialogue are pure pulp, but — as we ourselves emerge from four relentlessly bleak years in which strongmen flirted on the world stage and right-wing ugliness seemed to bubble up everywhere — it’s hard not to engage in your own what-ifs.