October 2011. The Berlin Wall never fell. Crucial economic talks between East and West are taking place when an ally of the GDR's chairman is murdered. With the future of East Germany hanging over him, Detective Martin Wegener must find the killer, even if it means investigating the Stasi themselves. PLAN D is a gripping alternative-history thriller in the vein of Robert Harris's FATHERLAND.

Simon Urban was born in Hagen in 1975. He studied German literature at the University of Munster, and creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut in Leipzig, and his short stories have earned him numerous prizes. He lives in Hamburg and Techau (East Holstein) and currently works as a copywriter for a leading German creative agency.