Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Advanced
Title details for Fall of Man in Wilmslow by David Lagercrantz - Available

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

by David Lagercrantz
ebook
Read a sample Read a sample
Another electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide and then opens out to a young detective's awakening, and to the painful secrets about his own life—and the life of his country—from the author of the #1 bestseller The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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 leads 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.
Expand title description text
Publisher: Penguin Canada

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780735232518
  • File size: 5078 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780735232518
  • File size: 5078 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2016
Loading
Loading

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature Historical Fiction LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)

Languages

English

Another electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide and then opens out to a young detective's awakening, and to the painful secrets about his own life—and the life of his country—from the author of the #1 bestseller The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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 leads 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.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
Check Out What's Being Checked Out Right Now