Fall Of Man In Wilmslow: A Novel Of Alan Turing

by David Lagercrantz

2021-01-01 11:34:48

From the author of the #1 bestseller The Girl in the Spider''s Web, an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing''s suicide and then opens out to take in a young detective''s awakening to painful secrets about his own life--and the life... Read more
From the author of the #1 bestseller The Girl in the Spider''s Web, an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing''s suicide and then opens out to take in a young detective''s awakening to painful secrets about his own life--and the life of his country.


It''s 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home: it is widely assumed that he committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a criminal conviction for homosexuality. But young Detective Sergeant Leonard Corell, who had always dreamt of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved. In the face of opposition from his superiors, he begins to assemble the pieces of a puzzle that lead him to one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war: the Bletchley Park operation to crack the Nazis'' Enigma code. But he is also about to be rocked by two startling developments in his own life, one of which will find him being pursued as a threat to national security... Less

Book Details

File size8 X 5.2 X 0.8 in
Print pages416
PublisherPenguin Canada
Publication date April 4, 2017
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780735232525
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ is an acclaimed Swedish journalist and author. He has worked as a crime reporter for Expressen and has written several novels, including the forthcoming Fall of Man in Wilmslow. He w...

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