Fatherland

A critics' reading. Fatherland is often said to owe its method to Len Deighton's SS-GB: a detective in a victorious Nazi state whose ordinary murder case leads him to a buried state secret.

A critics' reading. Fatherland stands in the tradition Philip K. Dick began, a world where Germany won the war, and borrows its unease at an ordinary-seeming occupied society.

Set in 1964 in a Germany that won the war, the novel follows an SS detective whose murder case uncovers the documented record of the Holocaust, which the regime has erased. The documents quoted are real.