The Fifteenth Man

A brilliantly taut, atmospheric Cold War thriller from a journalist and theatre critic who reported from Berlin in the 1990s, and whose German grandfather was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations medal for sheltering a Jewish escapee from a concentration camp. It opens at Wannsee in 1942, as 15 men draft the machinery of the Holocaust, then jumps to 1990: the Wall is down, and Anglo-German journalist Michael Braun, who scrapes a living tracking elderly Nazis, follows a trail that may lead to the head of the Gestapo – a man who may have walked out of Hitler’s bunker alive.