V2
by Robert Harris
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Pub Date Sep 17 2020 | Archive Date Sep 13 2022
Random House UK, Cornerstone | Hutchinson
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Description
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer.
On the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s – ballistic rockets that carried a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war.
Dr Rudi Graf who, along with his friend Werner von Braun, had once dreamt of sending a rocket to the moon, now finds himself in November 1944 in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland, launching V2s against London. No one understands the volatile, deadly machine better than Graf, but his disillusionment with the war leads to him being investigated for sabotage.
Kay Caton-Walsh, an officer in the WAAF, has experienced first-hand the horror of a V2 strike. When 160 Londoners, mostly women and children, are killed by a single missile, the government decides to send a team of WAAFs to newly-liberated Belgium in the hope of discovering the location of the launch sites. But not all the Germans have left and Kay finds herself in mortal danger.
As the war reaches its desperate end, their twin stories play out, interlocked and separate, until their destinies are finally forced together.
Advance Praise
‘I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled.’ Anthony Horowitz
‘There are very few authors that everyone is gagging to see what they publish next. JK Rowling is one and I would say Robert Harris is another’ Iain Dale
‘Harris' deceptively effortless prose means you barely notice. The effect is one of total immersion: you can feel the cold, taste the bacon sandwiches and imagine the trolleys squeaking across the floor.’ Financial Times
‘The king of the page-turning thriller’ I paper
‘Second World War buffs will enjoy Robert Harris's V2’ Independent
‘A young WAAF helps hunt for the Nazis’ V2 weapon in this astonishingly precise novel… V2 will keep you pinned on a compelling trajectory.’ Sunday Times
‘Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting’ Daily Telegraph
‘The novel sits alongside Fatherland etc like them V2 combines detailed research.... with atmospheric descriptions of a cowering London and the forests on the Dutch coast where the rockets were launched’ New Statesman
‘Written mostly during lockdown at a time of international political turmoil, Harris is delivering a warning about toxic futility and the ferocious propaganda needed to fuel it. His timing is, unlike the workings of the rockets he writes about, impeccable.’ Evening Standard
‘Robert Harris is at his best creating fiction that fits hand in glove with history. I love the respect he shows for the past when weaving his fictional story into real events… This is a perfect Christmas present for the historical thriller fan on the family.’ NB Magazine
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781786331403 |
| PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 464 |
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