Name: Fall of man in Wilmslow: A Novel of Alan Turing
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Author: David Lagercrantz
ISBN: 9781101970416

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Fall of man in Wilmslow: A Novel of Alan Turing

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Lagercrantz

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781101970416

Synopsis "Fall of man in Wilmslow: A Novel of Alan Turing "

From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing’s suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear On June 8, 1954, Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow—an apparent suicide. Investigators assumed he purposely ate a cyanide-laced apple because he was unable to cope with the humiliation of his criminal conviction for gross indecency. But Leonard Corell, a young detective constable who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved. In the face of opposition from his superiors and in the paranoid atmosphere of the Cold War, he inches closer to the truth and to one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Second World War—what was going on at Bletchley Park. With state secrets swirling in his mind and a growing fear that he is under surveillance, Corell realizes that he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge.

David Lagercrantz

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David Lagercrantz (Sweden, 1962) is a writer and journalist. He debuted in 1997 with a book about the Swedish adventurer Göran Kropp and his conquest of Everest without oxygen, followed by his acclaimed novel about Alan Turing, The Turing Enigma (Destino Editions, 2016). He is the author of one of the most successful books in recent Swedish history, the biography of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, I Am Zlatan. Published in more than fifty countries and with over 105 million readers worldwide, he continued the Millennium series, created by Stieg Larsson in 2005, with the novels What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, The Man Who Chased His Shadow, and The Girl Who Lived Twice, becoming one of the most important literary phenomena of all time.

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