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V2: the new Second World War thriller from the #1 bestselling author
`An immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop … the joy is in the history as much as the story … Once again Harris has placed the reader at the heart of a great historic event, using a small story to tell a great one.` FINANCIAL TIMES The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second.Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped 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. Haunted and disillusioned, Graf – who understands the volatile, deadly machine better than anyone – is tasked with firing these lethal `vengeance weapons` at London.Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women`s Auxiliary Air Force, and a survivor of a V2 strike. As the rockets devastate London, she 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.But at this stage in the war it`s hard to know who, if anyone, you can trust. As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war – until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide. `The king of the page-turning thriller` THE i`Second World War buffs will enjoy Robert Harris`s V2` INDEPENDENT