I read this one for my bookclub next month.  It’s not normally the type of book I would pick up and read, although I can’t put my finger on why exactly.  It looks like it would be similar to those mass market John Grisham novels, which, while not bad, aren’t my thing either.  I think perhaps I’m a literary snob.  Oh well.

Regardless, I enjoyed this book.  It was a fairly quick read, as these things go, and of course the mystery spurs you on.  I was particularly eager to see what would happen at the Swiss Bank.  Although I do question what the point of that piece of plot was.  They find something in the vault, which plays next to no part in the story and certainly has no significance to the case/mystery.

Fatherland takes place in a post-WWII victory Germany, where Hitler is about to celebrate his 75th birthday.  The Nazi party is strong and in power.  It’s an interesting idea, though frankly rather difficult for me to image, given how things actually ended.  This leads to the case, where several high ranking Nazi-party members have been murdered for knowledge they are trying to bring to light.

In the end, we find out what they were hiding, although I admit to finding it rather anti-climactic.  I won’t say what it is, but it’s significantly less shocking than I’d hoped.

On a final note, I don’t think it’s healthy to hate a fictional ten year old boy as much as I do right now, ohmygod.

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