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Robert Harris - V2, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

V2

Av Robert Harris

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**ROBERT HARRIS RETURNS TO ANCIENT ROME IN AGRIPPA -- OUT NOW**THE FIRST ROCKET WILL TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO HIT LONDON. KAY HAS SIX MINUTES TO STOP THE SECOND.'Immersive' GUARDIAN'Stunning' DAILY EXPRESS'Riveting' TELEGRAPHRudi 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 MacIntyreRobert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-07-08
  • Mått: 130 x 197 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 258 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 416
  • Förlag: Cornerstone
  • ISBN: 9781787460980
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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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A riveting read . . . with a corker of a twist.

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 3/5 Krs

    Välskriven och ettintressant dokument on V2-raketerna från båda sidor av kriget, men tyvärr känns inte karaktärerna helt trovärdiga så det gör att man tappar den där riktiga sidvändareffekten.

  2. 5/5 Anders K Verifierat köp
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