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Munich, 1923, in the months before Hitler's putsch. Frederick Walter has a plan worked out with almost mathematical precision: to stop the rise of a future master of life and death, called in the book the Knight with the Little Moustache, with a single sniper's shot. The story is told by an American journalist, whose account carefully rebuilds the social, economic and cultural conditions in Germany that favoured the Führer's rise, from jokes about inflation to the smell of Bavarian coffee houses. Everything is built around one fraction of a second, at 12:44 on 9 November 1923, and against the urge to stop evil before it spreads runs a love story. Weaving in Eliot, Spengler, Bošković and Heisenberg, the book asks whether one moment, or one bullet, can change the course of history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

339 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, 1923

First published

2025 by Ex libris

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9789538431241 (original)