Plan D

Awards:   Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK) Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 (UK) Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015. Short-listed for CWA International Dagger 2014 Short-listed for CWA International Dagger 2014 (UK) Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger 2014.
Author:   Simon Urban ,  Katy Derbyshire
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9780099578352


Pages:   528
Publication Date:   05 June 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK)
  • Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015
  • Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 (UK)
  • Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015.
  • Short-listed for CWA International Dagger 2014
  • Short-listed for CWA International Dagger 2014 (UK)
  • Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger 2014.

Overview

Imagine a world in which the Berlin Wall never fell... A modern-day Cold War thriller- Robert Harris's Fatherland meets John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. 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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Author:   Simon Urban ,  Katy Derbyshire
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780099578352


ISBN 10:   0099578352
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   05 June 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.
Language:   English

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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 *


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


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Simon Urban was born in Hagen in 1975. He studied German literature at the University of Munster, and creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut in Leipzig, and his short stories have earned him numerous prizes. He lives in Hamburg and Techau (East Holstein) and currently works as a copywriter for a leading German creative agency.

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