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Twenty-five years after "Fatherland", Robert Harris returns to World War Two and the years around it, with the major real-life figures featuring throughout this spy thriller set across four days during the 1938 Munich conference. The intrigue begins with two old friends from Oxford crossing paths again - one a private secretary for Chamberlain, the other a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance.
Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep and V2. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
Show moreTwenty-five years after "Fatherland", Robert Harris returns to World War Two and the years around it, with the major real-life figures featuring throughout this spy thriller set across four days during the 1938 Munich conference. The intrigue begins with two old friends from Oxford crossing paths again - one a private secretary for Chamberlain, the other a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance.
Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep and V2. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
Show moreA new spy thriller set over the four days of the 1938 Munich Conference, as the world waits for war, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland, Conclave and An Officer and a Spy.
Robert Harris is the author of fifteen bestselling novels- the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2 and Act of Oblivion. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
Grips from start to finish . . . Munich captures the mood of the
times: the suspicion and the fear, the political intrigue, the
swagger of the Nazi machine and the widespread elation at the
mistaken belief that war has been averted. Superb.
*Mail on Sunday*
Harris’s cleverness, judgment and eye for detail are second to none
. . . his research is so impeccable that he could have cut all the
spy stuff and published Munich as a history book. Harris’s
treatment of Britain’s most maligned prime minister is so powerful,
so persuasive, that it ranks among the most moving fictional
portraits of a politician that I have ever read
*Sunday Times*
An intelligent thriller . . . with exacting attention to historical
detail
*The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
A gripping account of the negotiations between Britain and Germany
in 1938 before the outbreak of war
*Guardian*
Atmospheric and fast-paced literary thriller . . . [it] grips from
start to finish . . . Superb
*Mail on Sunday*
Unputdownable to the point of being dangerous: the house could have
been on fire while I was reading and I wouldn’t have noticed
*Sunday Express*
Harris makes the reader gasp at every turn, with a truly moving
portrayal of Chamberlain as a man who did the wrong thing for the
right reason
*Daily Express, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
A brilliantly constructed spy novel set amid the politicking of
Chamberlain’s last-ditch negotiations with Hitler
*Observer*
A tantalising addition to the inexhaustible game of “what if”?
*Guardian*
A wonderful tale of personal relationships and political drama…This
is a very, very good read
*Spectator, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
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