Fall of Man in Wilmslow by David Lagercrantz

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagercrantz
368 pages
Knopf
Jan 2016
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<b>From the author of the #1 best seller <i>The Girl in the Spider's Web</i>--an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country.</b> <br><br>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 dreamed 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 lead 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...

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Thinking Outside the Apple

Alan Turing was not normal. For the world, that turned out to be a good thing. Normal people tend to think, shall I say, normally. The geniuses of the world tend to be consumed by their thoughts to the detriment of their happiness. This novel shines photons on a man who changed history. If Newton and Turing were sitting under the apple tree. When the apple fell and Newton saw it as a universal law, Turing would have seen it as a specific case of many possibilities for the direction of the apple (especially if the apple were very small). Lagercrantz does a wonderful job of combining history, mathematics, physics, human nature, and entertainment into this novel. Read more

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