| The City of Fading Light | |
| Author: | Jon Cleary |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Collins (UK) William Morrow (US) |
| Release Date: | 1985 |
The City of Fading Light is a 1985 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary about a Hollywood actress who tries to rescue her Jewish mother from 1939 Berlin. The book features Sean Carmody, the character from his earlier novel The Sundowners.[1] [2]
Cleary researched the novel on a trip to Berlin with his family and based the plot on a real British plan to assassinate Hitler prior to the war.[3] [4]