V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers by Robert Harris with 320 pages.

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    Title : V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller
    Brand : Robert Harris
    Category : Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers
    ISBN : 1786331403
    Page of number : 320 pages
    Publisher : Hutchinson; 1st edition (17 Sept. 2020)
    Language : English
    Dimensions : 16.4 x 3.1 x 24.2 cm
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Crime, Thrillers & Mystery,Thrillers V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller by Robert Harris ________________‘An immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop … the joy is in the history as much as the story … Once again Harris has placed the reader at the heart of a great historic event, using a small story to tell a great one.’ FINANCIAL TIMES________________The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped create the world’s most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Haunted and disillusioned, Graf – who understands the volatile, deadly machine better than anyone – is tasked with firing these lethal ‘vengeance weapons’ at London.Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and a survivor of a V2 strike. As the rockets devastate London, she joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites.But at this stage in the war it’s hard to know who, if anyone, you can trust. As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war – until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide.________________‘Delivers one hell of a punch’ Damian Lewis’ Books of the Year, Daily Express‘Harris finds the poetry in physics and the soul in engineering. He makes the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human characters … Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting.’ JAKE KERRIDGE, TELEGRAPH‘I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled.’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ‘Astonishingly precise … As Graf and Kay plot and counterplot, questions rise and fall like rockets. V2 will keep you pinned on a compelling trajectory.’ SUNDAY TIMES‘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 the peak of his storytelling power with V2; it takes you all the way back to the pleasure of reading Enigma.’ PATRICK NEALE‘The king of the page-turning thriller.’ THE i‘Second World War buffs will enjoy Robert Harris’s V2‘ INDEPENDENT‘V2‘s portrait of a battered and weary London is not without a certain 2020 resonance.’ TOM HOLLAND

    I once ranked Robert Harris alongside the truly great modern thriller writers. up there with Phillip Kerr, Frederick Forsyth and John le Carrier, in the tradition set a generation earlier by such greats as Len Deighton, Alastair Maclean and Hammond Innes. After strugglng with the wafer thin plot and abysmal characterisation in the first hundred or so pages of V2 I wonder, not for the first time, how I ever came to be a fan. Has Harris been taking lessons in padding from the arch plodder Sansom? The boring heroine accepts a cigarette although she doesn’t really smoke, and having finished it throws the stub out of the car. Really? She didn’t drop it in the petrol tank, or shove it up someone’s arse? At least that might have encouraged us to read on. Not once does someone arrive at a military unit without being stopped by a guard and having their papers examined. Over and over. Hard to understand why Harris keeps writing when he obviously no longer takes a pride in it. A quiet and surely very comfortable retirement should now beckon. But please, no more books like this one which, as another reviewer has pointed out, would never have found a publisher coming from an unknown author. Let this once fine writer take a hint from his increasingly lukewarm Amazon reviews, so much more reliable than the sycophantic drivel in the national press.

Robert Harris is one of my favourite authors but I can never be sure of whether each book will be one comes up to his best standards, perhaps to make a story gripping which should be dull, or one which might not make the most of its subject matter.This is a wonderful book, which halfway through I thought I had some doubts about, but no. The technical side is fascinating and the way it comes together with the human one is spot on.The scene setting is so immersive that it makes you tense and glance around. People’s characters are vividly drawn and movingly respected. The story is just that, slowly and impeccably consistent. In short, the author at his best.I can’t think of another situation in my experience of fiction where characters are so dramatically linked at a distance between their different worlds as Rudi and Kay, when a V2 is flying. A scene right near the end, which I mustn’t spoil, is almost unbearably poignant.There’s a personal element for me. Mum was in the firing line of the rockets. Victory or Vengeance? Their world or ours? See both here and thank all goodness it went the right way.Full marks.

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