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 | 0747585946 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780747585947
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Previous ISBN | 9780747584124 | | Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 04 Feb 2008 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'A profound exploration of guilt, friendship, voyeurism and morality. A cracker' Independent on Sunday 'With inexorable tenderness Cartwright weaves his narrative threads into a fabric of beautiful complexity heart-stopping a novel that is deeply serious and utterly accomplished' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph 'A richly detailed evocation of one of the darkest periods in modern history, and an eloquent exploration of human fallibility and guilt' The Times
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