A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero
A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero
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.
“Fall of Man in Wilmslow is a multilayered, captivating mix of thriller, history of ideas, popular science and psychological novel . . . A gripping portrayal of a remarkable era as well as a ringing defence of people's right to be different . . . A police thriller that makes its readers a bit smarter and better educated - that sort of thing is all too rare - Svenska DagbladetDavid Lagercrantz has written an extremely gripping, intellectual thriller - AftonbladetIt's really a British creation - not just because it is set in the England of the 1940s and '50s, but also on the level of its eminently well composed, balanced style. - Goteborgs Posten”
Fall of Man in Wilmslow is a multilayered, captivating mix of thriller, history of ideas, popular science and psychological novel . . . A gripping portrayal of a remarkable era as well as a ringing defence of people's right to be different . . . A police thriller that makes its readers a bit smarter and better educated - that sort of thing is all too rare - Svenska Dagbladet
David Lagercrantz has written an extremely gripping, intellectual thriller - Aftonbladet
It's really a British creation - not just because it is set in the England of the 1940s and '50s, but also on the level of its eminently well composed, balanced style. - Goteborgs Posten
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web, his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller and was made into a film by Sony Pictures (2018). He is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and the fifth in the Millennium series, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye.
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.
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