V2 - Robert Harris

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***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***''Immersive'' Guardian''Stunning'' Daily Express''Riveting'' TelegraphVictory 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 MacIntyreRobert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024