{"product_id":"mister-wolf","title":"Mister Wolf","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Butchers of Berlin, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003esoon to be a TV series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerlin, July 1944\u003c\/b\u003e, a world of illicit jazz clubs, sexually generous young women, suspect art dealers, last-ditch zealots and a city defined by crumbling infrastructure, advanced terror, dirty secrets and deep politics - and then there is August Schlegel, caught askance in a web of totalitarian mayhem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverybody knows what happened on 20 July: Führer Adolf Hitler miraculously survived an assassination attempt when a bomb failed to kill him. Schlegel, a reluctant employee of the Gestapo, finds himself in the foolhardy position of questioning the official version, knowing it is the last thing he should be thinking. Was it a propaganda stunt, or a deception or was something more extreme going on, perhaps a cover-up connected to the mysterious burning down of a Berlin clinic  A deadly political dance takes Schlegel all the way up to Party Secretary Martin Bormann, the Chancellory's sinister 'black pope'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformation is controlled, informers are everywhere, secrecy remains the cornerstone of the regime, yet someone appears interested in digging up a carefully buried scandal in the Führer's past private life, an incestuous affair with his young niece that ended mysteriously in 1931. Rumours circulate of a 'Hitler confession'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrapped in a kingdom of lies, Schlegel discovers the blighted present and a censored past are connected in ways he could never have imagined. The niece's tragic end is intimately bound up with the fate of his long-lost father, whom Schlegel had always believed absconded to Argentina and died there, until he finds a private 1925 edition of \u003ci\u003eMein Kampf\u003c\/i\u003e, dedicated to 'Anton Schlegel', signed, 'In eternal gratitude, Adolf Hitler.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe identity of Schlegel's father - and whether he is still alive and operating as a secret puppet master - becomes inseparable from the enigma of a shapeshifting Führer, going back to the early days when he was known to Anton Schlegel as Herr Wolf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestioning the official version of events, Chris Petit offers a dazzling reinterpretation of history, showing how the deeper secret truths invariably turn out to be personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Chris Petit:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'No denying the book's power' \u003cb\u003eNick Rennison, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'The real skill of this rigorous, disturbing novel lies in the way Petit steadily and unsensationally allows his protagonists to discover the full horror of the hellhole they are in' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'One of Britain's most visionary writers' \u003cb\u003eDavid Peace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Powerful evocation of a city living in terror' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times Crime Club\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Ambitious, darkly atmospheric' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Hugely impressive and highly readable; in the tradition of Thomas Harris's\u003ci\u003e The Silence of the Lambs' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Ferocious invention marks this novel out as special' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Edge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Ambitious and intelligent'  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Puts Petit in the first rank' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A zigzagging narrative as byzantine an blackly pessemistic as late James Ellroy' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'An example of the genre near its best. \u003ci\u003eGorky Park \u003c\/i\u003ewith something to spare; well worth anyone's weekend' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efor \u003ci\u003eThe Psalm Killer\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53793290584402,"sku":"9781471171468","price":13.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_7415ca24-906e-4130-940e-a37e0faacadd.jpg?v=1781832260","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/mister-wolf","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}