V2: The brand new Second World War thriller: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

_________________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 TIMESA Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year_________________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 worlds 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 Womens 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 its 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.________________For a long time now Harris has looked like the heir to John Le Carre the popular yarn spinner with claims to permanence. SUNDAY MORNING HERALDHarris 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 TELEGRAPHI want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled. ANTHONY HOROWITZAstonishingly precise ... As Graf and Kay plot and counterplot questions rise and fall like rockets. V2 will keep you pinned on a compelling trajectory. SUNDAY TIMESHarris captures the real nature of war. Gripping. BEN MACINTYREDelivers one hell of a punch DAMIAN LEWISs Books of the Year EXPRESSHarris 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 STANDARDRobert 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 NEALEThe king of the page-turning thriller. THE iSecond World War buffs will enjoy Robert Harriss V2. INDEPENDENTV2s portrait of a battered and weary London is not without a certain 2020 resonance. TOM HOLLAND[Bestseller in the UK Sunday Times September 2020] Review A riveting read . . . with a corker of a twist. ―Telegraph[I]mmersive and engaging. ―GuardianV2 is a stunning achievement; a gripping page-turner that remains highly thought-provoking. ―Daily ExpressAn immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop . . . For all its pace - you will zip through it in no time - the rewards are in the meta-story. But Harriss 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 TimesI want to be the first to say it: RobertHarris scores a direct hit withV2. I was enthralled. About the Author Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy -Imperium Lustrum andDictator - Fatherland Enigma Archangel Pompeii The Ghost The Fear Index An Officer and a Spy which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historica