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Act of Oblivion - the brand new thriller from Robert Harris, available now 'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph Victory 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 MacIntyre
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V2, Robert Harris
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- Publicado en
- 2021
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- Título
- V2
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Robert Harris
- Editorial
- Cornerstone
- Publicado en
- 2021
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 1787460983
- ISBN13
- 9781787460980
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Tema histórico, Novela negra & Thriller, Novelas históricas, Thriller, Alemania, Prosa bélica, Guerras, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Muerte, Inglaterra, Gran Bretaña, Londres, Violencia, Nazismo, Basado en hechos reales, Países Bajos, Tercer Reich (Alemania nazi), 1933-1945, Culpa, Resistencia, oposición, Servicios secretos, RAF - Real Fuerza Aérea Británica, Año 1944, Bombardeo, Thrillers Históricos, Proyectos Secretos y Armas del Tercer Reich
- Primera publicación
- 2020
- Título original
- V2
- Calificación
- 3,85 de 5
- Descripción
- Act of Oblivion - the brand new thriller from Robert Harris, available now 'Immersive' Guardian 'Stunning' Daily Express 'Riveting' Telegraph Victory 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 MacIntyre