Kingdom of Ashes

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<p>Germany, spring 1946. The Nuremberg Trials are underway. Three hundred miles north, in the Rehstadt Institute, a British "Assessment and Evaluation" centre, Alex Foster interrogates a succession of lesser war criminals, exploring their pasts and their crimes, and deciding their futures in the soon-to-be-reborn Germany.</p><p>But Rehstadt, a town largely untouched by the war, is a place of old hostilities and burnished hatreds; a place still not entirely at peace; a place where the certainties of the past are still weighed favourably against the deprivations of the present and the vague, uncertain promises of the future.</p><p>As spring progresses, and as events in the wider world quicken to their own closely observed conclusion, Alex Foster finds himself at the centre of a conflict involving British, American and German interests; and for the first time in his career he also finds himself compromised - forced into subterfuge and deceit as he struggles to weigh personal convictions and loyalties against the greater political and military good...</p>

Autorenportrait

Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include<i>Winter Garden</i>(1985 James Tait Black Prize winner),<i>A New Ice Age</i>(1986 runner-up for the 1986 Guardian Fiction Prize),<i>A Lunar Eclipse, The Earth Made of Glass, Elysium, In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen</i>(shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award),<i>Peacetime</i>(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002) and<i>Gathering the Water</i>(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2006). His latest novel,<i>In Zodiac Light</i>, is now available from Doubleday.

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