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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rory ClementsPublisher: Zaffre Imprint: Zaffre Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.292kg ISBN: 9781785764523ISBN 10: 1785764527 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 12 July 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsDramatic, twisty thriller -- Elizabeth Buchan * Daily Mail * In trademark Clements style, there are plot strands and twists aplenty as immaculately researched real history and a gripping sense of time and place blend seamlessly with a full-throttle, suspense-packed spy mystery * Lancashire Evening Post * Dramatic, twisty thriller -- Elizabeth Buchan * Daily Mail * 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 * Daily Mail * Author InformationRory 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |