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V2
- Author
- Robert Harris
- Narrator
- David Rintoul
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 17 September 2020
- Run Time
- 8 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
© Robert Harris 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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A riveting read . . . with a corker of a twist.
Telegraph
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[I]mmersive and engaging.
Guardian
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V2 is a stunning achievement; a gripping page-turner that remains highly thought-provoking.
Daily Express
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An immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop . . . For all its pace - you will zip through it in no time - the rewards are in the meta-story. But Harris's deceptively effortless prose means you barely notice. The effect is one of total immersion: you can feel the cold, taste the bacon sandwiches and imagine the trolleys squeaking across the floor.
Financial Times
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I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled.
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Harris renders the historical detail with his customary verisimilitude.
The Times
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Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller'.
Observer
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This is a lively read, as propulsive as the rockets of the title, and it masterfully captures the bleak, jaded atmosphere of the Second World War's death throes.
Daily Express
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Robert Harris has always been ingenious at finding ways to write about the Second World War [...] It's highly readable . . . thrillingly tense.
S Magazine, Sunday Express
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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 . . . His prose can be wonderfully vivid... Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting.
Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Robert Harris
- Narrator
- David Rintoul
- Duration
- 8 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473577428
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Second World War fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, War, combat and military adventure fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.THE TOP RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SUMMER 2021___________________________'Immersive' Guardian'Stunning' Daily Express'Riveting' Telegraph___________________________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...___________________________'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© Robert Harris 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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