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Fall of Man in Wilmslow

By: David Lagercrantz, George Goulding - translator
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
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 June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple.

Taking the case, Detective Constable Leonard Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it's a suicide, he is nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing's war record. What is more, Turing's sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services - could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies?

Stumbling across evidence of Turing's genius, and sensing an escape from a narrow life, Corell soon becomes captivated by Turing's brilliant and revolutionary work, and begins to dig deeper.

But in the paranoid, febrile atmosphere of the Cold War, loose cannons cannot be tolerated. As his innocent curiosity fast takes him far out of his depth, Corell realises he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge.

(P)2015 Quercus Editions Ltd©2015 David Lagercrantz 20th Century Espionage Historical Historical Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction War Cold War

Critic Reviews

Lagercrantz neatly intertwines the facts of Turing's life with the fiction of Corell's quest for knowledge to create an unsettling story of state secrets and sexual hypocrisy (Nick Rennison)
Swedish crime fiction moves into Britain's heartland in this superbly written espionage and murder novel . . . Lagercrantz has the lingo, the mood and the place down pat. (Margaret Cannon)
Has the faintest whiff of W.G. Sebald; haunted characters determined to pull others down into turbid, oppressive currents of memory and ideas. You are willingly drawn down with them (Sinclair McKay)
A persuasive evocation of Turing's genius and of a Britain still suffering under rationing and repression (Harry Ritchie)
Perhaps the most signal achievement here is the clever melding of two narrative forms: a sympathetic biography of a real historical figure treated appallingly by the establishment, and a police procedural in which a dogged copper tries to crack a mystery in the teeth of bloody-minded intransigence (Barry Forshaw)
Absorbing . . . Gets the synapses sparking . . . Lagercrantz is at home with a damaged hero who has more of an affinity with computers than humans (Jake Kerridge)
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Wow, I'd never heard of Alan Turing but I had to find out more after listening to this. Great work and great topic. I love stories that make you think and those spun around the real world and fact. I still don't know yet what is real and what is not but that's another adventure now.

Fascinating

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the book had a slow start but characters evolved through the book. i enjoyed the narration.

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Struggled to finish. not good enough to keep my interests up. Need to get refund.

couldnt finish it. Very boring.

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