***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***
'Immersive' Guardian
'Stunning' Daily Express
'Riveting' Telegraph
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer.
Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to 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. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London.
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who 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.
As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide...
'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph
'Supremely readable'Observer
'Delivers one hell of a punch'Express
'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre
Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024
A riveting read . . . with a corker of a twist. * Telegraph *
[I]mmersive and engaging. * Guardian *
V2 is a stunning achievement; a gripping page-turner that remains highly thought-provoking. * Daily Express *
An 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 Harris's 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 *
I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled.
Harris renders the historical detail with his customary verisimilitude. * The Times *
Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller'. * Observer *
This is a lively read, as propulsive as the rockets of the title, and it masterfully captures the bleak, jaded atmosphere of the Second World War's death throes. * Daily Express *
Robert Harris has always been ingenious at finding ways to write about the Second World War [...] It's highly readable . . .thrillingly tense. * S Magazine, Sunday 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 . . . His prose can be wonderfully vivid... 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 *
ISBN: 9781787460980
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm
Weight: 278g
400 pages