Ronald Beek Books

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.

For the last four years the town of Goodlands has been stricken by drought. When bank manager Karen sees a television interview with a man who claims he can make it rain, she writes to him in desperation. He turns up on her doorstep over a year later, dusty and dishevelled, demanding his money.