Nucleus: the gripping spy thriller for fans of ROBERT HARRIS - Hardcover

Clements, Rory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785763717 ISBN 13: 9781785763717

Publisher: Zaffre, 2018

Synopsis

From the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of CORPUS The eve of war: a secret so deadly, nothing and no one is safe June 1939. England is partying like there is no tomorrow, gas masks at the ready. In Cambridge the May Balls are played out with a frantic intensity - but the good times won't last..., In Europe, the Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, and in Germany the persecution of the Jews is now so widespread that desperate Jewish parents send their children to safety in Britain aboard the Kindertransport. Closer to home, the IRA's S-Plan bombing campaign has resulted in more than 100 terrorist outrages around England. But perhaps the most far-reaching event of all goes largely unreported: in Germany, Otto Hahn has produced the first man-made fission and an atomic device is now a very real possibility., The Nazis set up the Uranverein group of physicists: its task is to build a superbomb. The German High Command is aware that British and US scientists are working on similar line. Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is where the atom was split in 1932., Might the Cambridge men now win the race for a nuclear bomb? Hitler's generals need to be sure they know all the Cavendish's secrets. Only then will it be safe for Germany to wage war. When one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once more drawn into an intrigue from which there seems no escape., In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin and from Washington DC to the west coast of Ireland, he faces deadly forces that threaten the fate of the world. Praise for CORPUS 'Dramatic...pacy and assured' Daily Mail 'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express Praise for RORY CLEMENTS 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . ., . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph

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The history of this episode is eventful enough and, in this second of the Wilde series, the author whips it up into an additionally dramatic, twisty thriller. Source: Daily Mail

Dramatic . . . pacy and assured Source: Daily Mail

The series really hits its stride with the second volume. The murder of a physicist is one of many storylines that Clements juggles with aplomb Source: Daily Express

Rory Clements evokes the nervous, reckless build up to the outbreak of war in a convincingly detailed thriller Source: Daily Mail

an elegant, tense spy thriller Source: Sunday Express

Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence Source: The Times

A standout historical novel and spy thriller Source: Daily Express

Enjoyable, bloody and brutish Source: Guardian

Sends a shiver down your spine Source: Daily Mail

A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists Source: Sunday Telegraph

From the Author

RORY CLEMENTS is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger, and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in Norfolk with his family. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zaffre
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785763717
• ISBN 13: 9781785763717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384