Fall of Man in Wilmslow

De: David Lagercrantz, George Goulding - translator

Narrado por: Andrew Wincott

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 Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it’s a suicide, he’s nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing’s war record. What’s 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 his 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.

©2009 David Lagercrantz (P)2015 Quercus Editions Ltd

Great academic novel

An academic detective novel with a lot of dialog on mathematics and philosophy! Including real people like Alan Turing. Combined with cold war spy conspiracies and codes. A bit slow in the start though, but the second half was good.