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It is 1945.

Journey through the Judas window of Cell #5 at Nuremberg Prison into the mind of one of the Twentieth Century’s cruellest figures. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring: Hitler’s brilliant and brutal Second in Command; a shrewd political player who the Fuhrer himself calls ‘as cold as ice’.

Göring’s decadent world of fine art and opulent revelry is about to collapse, but the Reichsmarschall will never yield. As the Allied forces close in, and the evidence mounts against him, friends and adversaries are drawn inexorably into the final maelstrom that engulfs this charismatic and calculating master manipulator. Some of them will learn too late that though power is intoxicating, it is the most dangerous drug of all.

“I turned each page of this book with horrified fascination. Weaving back and forth through time and place, Lynch’s refined and elegant prose seamlessly melds meticulous research with vivid imagination to dissect one of history’s darkest minds. We are confronted with the paradox of a connoisseur of art and beauty who was, at the same time, a manipulative and deadly sociopath whose grandiose egocentricity is appalling. Given the turbulence of our present day, this novel holds not only historical curiosity, but also a stark reminder of what can occur when power and inhumanity go unchecked; I felt chills as I read.”
Clare Wigfall, author of The Loudest Sound and Nothing (Faber & Faber) and winner of the BBC National Short Story Award