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PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024
'Top-class' The Times
March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears.
'A compulsive page turner' Daily Mail
'As human, intelligent and gripping as documentary fiction can get' Financial Times
Act of Oblivion, Sunday Times bestseller, June 2023
A number one bestselling war thriller from the award-winning master of the literary and historical thriller genre: Robert Harris. Adapted into an award-winning film, with screenplay by Tom Stoppard, starring Kate Winslet and Saffron Burrows.
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.
Reviews
The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff. Peter Millar * The Times *
Enigma totally gripped me * Sunday Times *
After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer * Mail on Sunday *
Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come * Evening Standard *
I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked * Observer *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099527923
Author Robert Harris
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher Cornerstone
Weight(grams) 319g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 29mm
