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October 2011. While West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism, on the crowded, polluted, Eastern side of the Wall, the GDR is facing bankruptcy. The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West, but then an ally of the GDR's chairman is found murdered - and all the clues suggest that his killer came from within the Stasi. Detective Martin Wegener is assigned to the case, but, with the future of East Germany hanging over him, Wegener must work with the West German police if he is to find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. It is a journey that will take him from Stasi meeting rooms to secret prisons as he begins to unravel the identity of both victim and killer, and the meaning of the mysterious Plan D. "Plan D" is a gripping thriller and a thought-provoking alternative history in the vein of Robert Harris's "Fatherland" and John le Carre's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".
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Review:
"A superb alt-timeline thriller that recalls Robert Harris’s Fatherland" (Financial Times)
"Simon Urban has created an imaginative alternate landscape that is so absurdly believable I had to remind myself, occasionally, that it wasn't the real world. And all was the backdrop to a conspiracy, wrapped in secrets, covered in deception. Compulsive reading, I devoured it" (Will Carver)
"A gripping journey into an alternate past - Plan D is the epitome of what a great thriller should be" (William Ryan)
"A genuine page turner. But it’s also a book about the nature of dictatorships. It shows why dictatorship is possible, how dictatorship is done and what it does to people" (Juli Zeh)
"Vividly imagined and described...a very good read" (Jessica Mann Literary Review)
Book Description:
"Simon Urban has created an imaginative alternate landscape that is so absurdly believable I had to remind myself, occasionally, that it wasn't the real world. And all was the backdrop to a conspiracy, wrapped in secrets, covered in deception. Compulsive reading, I devoured it" (Will Carver)
"A gripping journey into an alternate past - Plan D is the epitome of what a great thriller should be" (William Ryan)
"A genuine page turner. But it’s also a book about the nature of dictatorships. It shows why dictatorship is possible, how dictatorship is done and what it does to people" (Juli Zeh)
"Vividly imagined and described...a very good read" (Jessica Mann Literary Review)
Imagine a world in which the Berlin Wall never fell...
A modern-day Cold War thriller: Robert Harris’s Fatherland meets John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
A modern-day Cold War thriller: Robert Harris’s Fatherland meets John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1846556937
- ISBN 13 9781846556937
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages528
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