{"product_id":"9781786331410-froschmeuseler","title":"V2","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e_________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop \u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003ethe joy is in the history as much as the story . Once again Harris has placed the reader at the heart of a great historic event, using a small story to tell a great one.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first rocket will take five minutes to hit London.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou have six minutes to stop the second.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Haunted and disillusioned, Graf - who understands the volatile, deadly machine better than anyone - is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and a survivor of a V2 strike. As the rockets devastate London, she 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut at this stage in the war it's hard to know who, if anyone, you can trust. As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'For a long time now, Harris has looked like the heir to John Le Carre, the popular yarn spinner with claims to permanence.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY MORNING HERALD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Harris finds the poetry in physics and the soul in engineering. He makes the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human characters . Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting.' \u003c\/b\u003eJAKE KERRIDGE, \u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with \u003ci\u003eV2\u003c\/i\u003e. I was enthralled.'\u003c\/b\u003e ANTHONY HOROWITZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Astonishingly precise . As Graf and Kay plot and counterplot, questions rise and fall like rockets. \u003ci\u003eV2 \u003c\/i\u003ewill keep you pinned on a compelling trajectory.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Harris captures the real nature of war. Gripping.'\u003c\/b\u003e BEN MACINTYRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Delivers one hell of a punch'\u003c\/b\u003e DAMIAN LEWIS's Books of the Year, \u003ci\u003eEXPRESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Harris is delivering a warning about toxic futility and the ferocious propaganda needed to fuel it. His timing is, unlike the workings of the rockets he writes about, impeccable.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Robert Harris is at the peak of his storytelling power with \u003ci\u003eV2\u003c\/i\u003e; it takes you all the way back to the pleasure of reading \u003ci\u003eEnigma\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003c\/b\u003ePATRICK NEALE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The king of the page-turning thriller.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Second World War buffs will enjoy Robert Harris's \u003ci\u003eV2.\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eV2\u003c\/i\u003e's portrait of a battered and weary London is not without a certain 2020 resonance.'\u003c\/b\u003e TOM HOLLAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e[Bestseller in the UK, \u003c\/i\u003eSunday Times\u003ci\u003e, September 2020]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41680047243361,"sku":"9781786331410","price":6.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32503944.jpg?v=1737623147","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781786331410-froschmeuseler","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}