One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A brilliant thriller with a modern sensibility and super-fast pace and suspense that will delight fans of classic thrillers and films. Carrying on the tradition of ‘what if’ history novels started by Len Deighton with SS GB and continued with Robert Harris’ Fatherland The Afrika Reich is set in an alternative 1952. After the fiasco at Dunkirk forced Britain into an uneasy peace with Germany the Third Reich now control Europe and most of Africa. A personal feud forces a British mercenary on a reckless ‘last mission’, it goes horribly wrong and he is hunted down. This explosive thriller is a meticulously researched debut novel that is a must read for any fan of Robert Harris or Len Deighton.
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1952. It is more than a decade since the Dunkirk fiasco marked the end of Britain's war and an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean.
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1952. It is more than a decade since the Dunkirk fiasco marked the end of Britain's war and an uneasy peace with Hitler.
The Afrika Reich features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Debut Books of the Month, Historical Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Speculative fiction
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The Afrika Reich was written by Guy Saville and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
The Afrika Reich has 433 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.