The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Munich, An Officer and A Spy and Fatherland
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.
A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative in which the author,
with his customary storytelling skills, pulls us ever deeper into
the imaginative world he has created. It [also] poses challenging
questions about the meaning of the past, the idea of progress and
the stability of civilisation. It is a fine addition to Harris’s
diverse body of work.
*Sunday Times*
A return to the type of high-concept novel that made his name . . .
[T]he writing is elegant and pacy. The characters are fleshed out
and the plot zips along.
*The Times*
A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.
*Evening Standard*
Harris is rightly praised as the master of the intelligent
thriller. Genuinely thrilling, wonderfully conceived and entirely
without preaching, it probes the nature of history, of collective
memory and forgetting, and exposes the fragility of modern
civilisation.
*Daily Telegraph, 5 stars ******
Harris's bleak imagined world issues a clarion call to the present,
urging us to recognise the value of progress, the importance of
woolly concepts like liberalism and the rule of law, and all the
other ideals we’ve spent generations fighting for yet seem prepared
to sacrifice on the altar of populism. For make no mistake, this
novel [is] very much about the here and now . . . Harris is a
master of plotting and, in elegant, understated third-person prose,
he ratchets the tension ever upwards . . . this is nothing if not a
page-turner.
*Observer*
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