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***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***
Now a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons, George Mackay and Alex Jennings
'So good you want to clap' THE TIMES
'Unputdownable to the point of being dangerous' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Grips from start to finish . . . Superb' MAIL ON SUNDAY
MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938
Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.
They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known for what is about to take place.
As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Once friends in a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides.
As Europe's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and on the secrets they're hiding.
Treason. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?
'It ranks among the most moving portraits of a politician that I have ever read' SUNDAY TIMES
'A brilliantly conducted spy novel' OBSERVER
'Lovely details. Clever twists. Superb' EVENING STANDARD
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Now available: V2, Robert Harris's latest historical thriller
Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024
About the author
Robert Harris is the author of fifteen 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 and Act of Oblivion. 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.
Summary
Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders.
Report
Grips from start to finish . . . Munich captures the mood of the times: the suspicion and the fear, the political intrigue, the swagger of the Nazi machine and the widespread elation at the mistaken belief that war has been averted. Superb. Mail on Sunday
