On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Elya Mendel, and becomes obsessed with what they reveal and finding the brutal film. Award-winning writer Justin Cartwright has conjured a masterwork that addresses the nature of friendship and what it means to be human, and it is a remarkable tapestry of passion, ideas, frailty and courage.
| ISBN: | 9780747585947 |
| Publication date: | 4th February 2008 |
| Author: | Justin Cartwright |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |