The intense and disturbing relationship between Hitler and the daughter of his half-sister Angela evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1931 in Hitler's apartment in Munich.
Creating a vivid sense of the period, the novel includes a series of fascinating portraits of Hitler's inner circle: Goebbels, Goring, Himmler, Putzi Hanfstaengl, Heinrich Hoffman (Hitler's official photographer), and others who supported Hitler's political ambitions.
