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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson Mandela April, 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel . . . 'Robert Harris has created the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep' Sunday Times 'Powerful and chilling . . . convincing in every detail' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and ingenious . . . its breeding is by Orwell, out of P.D. James, a detective story inside a future shock' Daily Mail

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The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express * Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock * Daily Mail * Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class * The Times * The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times * Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail * Daily Telegraph *

The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express * Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock * Daily Mail * Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class * The Times * The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times * Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail * Daily Telegraph *

The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement The Times Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail Daily Telegraph Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock Daily Mail A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock Guardian Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep Sunday Times Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class The Times Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove Independent on Sunday A fantastic thriller... The final solution is an utter surprise. Harris reaches it with speed, conveying a whole culture of grotesquery and kitsch Mail on Sunday Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written Esquire

Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail * Daily Telegraph * The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement * The Times * Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class * The Times * Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock * Daily Mail * The research is extraordinary. * Daily Express *

Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock Daily Mail Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class The Times The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement The Times Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail Daily Telegraph A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock Guardian

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Robert Harris is the author of sixteen 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, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. 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.

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