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THE TOP RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SUMMER 2021
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''Immersive'' Guardian
''Stunning'' Daily Express
''Riveting'' Telegraph
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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...
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''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

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