Shadow patrol Werner Herzog’s debut novel draws on the extraordinary story of the Japanese soldier who continued fighting long after 1945

enever a master of one artistic medium chooses to work in another, it raises the question of what the new discipline might offer, and what the previous one denied. The Twilight World isn’t Werner Herzog’s first book (nor his last – a memoir is awaiting translation), but it is his first attempt at what might loosely be called a novel. What does that medium have to offer a man who, 60