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'An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller' - THE TIMES

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Führer. In this brilliant standalone crime novel set in 1930s Munich, Detective Sebastian Wolff must walk a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the Nazi party he despises.

MUNICH, 1935 - The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young, aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars.

What they don't see - or choose to ignore - is the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement which considers Munich its spiritual home.

When a high-born English girl is murdered, Detective Sebastian Wolff is ordered to solve the crime. Wolff is already walking a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the political party he abhors. Now Hitler is taking a personal interest in the case.

Followed by the secret police and threatened by his own son, a fervent member of the Hitler Youth, the stakes have never been higher. And when Wolff begins to suspect that the killer might be linked to the highest reaches of the Nazi hierarchy, he fears his task is simply impossible - and that he might become the next victim.

Praise for Rory Clements:

'Master of the wartime spy thriller' - FT
'Rich in deception' - DAILY EXPRESS
'A dramatic, twisty thriller' - DAILY MAIL
'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' - GUARDIAN
'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

*Sunday Times bestselling author of MUNICH WOLF w/c 27th January 2024 ending 3rd February 2024*

Details

ISBN13: 9781804181461
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 400
Edition:
Publication Date: 07 Jan 2025
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 198(H)x129(L)x24(W)267
Weight (gm): 267

Author Biography

RORY CLEMENTS writes full time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, where he lives with his wife, the artist Naomi Clements Wright. He is a Sunday Times bestselling author, and twice winner of the CWA
Historical Dagger Award, for Revenger and Nucleus. Three of his other novels - Martyr, Prince and The Heretics - have been shortlisted for awards. Munich Wolf is Rory's fifteenth novel, and the first featuring Munich detective Sebastian Wolff. His books have sold over 1 million copies to date.

Reviews

"The master of the wartime spy thriller." ― Financial Times

"Combines the talents of a superb storyteller with the unerring eye of a first-rate historian. . . . Clements's depiction of Munich in the dark and frightening summer of 1935 - with its salons and beer halls, cafés and restaurants favoured by Hitler and his intimate coteries, and the seamy clubs and extravagant parties favoured by SS officers and the overly indulged and uninhibited daughters of English aristocrats - is so accurate and vivid that you will think you have been transported back to this highly-charged time in the Bavarian capital city." ― Dr David I Hall, author of Hitler's Munich: The Capital of the Nazi Movement