V2
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3.8 • 90 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
THE TOP RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SUMMER 2021
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'Immersive' Guardian
'Stunning' Daily Express
'Riveting' Telegraph
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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...
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'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
© Robert Harris 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Customer Reviews
Poor
This book was slow and I struggled to understand where the story was going and what the plot was. All of a sudden it just finished! I was listening to it on audio book and I was convinced that for some unknown reason it had fast-forwarded 10 chapters to the end. So I went back and checked all the last few chapters. No, it was correct. I am still convinced that the book is missing some chapters, it couldn’t suddenly end like that!
It effectively, does not have a story line and the book keeps skipping back in time, which is great if it’s part of the plot but it is not. This book is almost a narrative of an event that happened in WW2, and not a very interesting one at that. I can safely say this is the worst book I have ever read in 40 years of reading a lot of books! Robert Harris admitted writing this in lockdown and it shows, even he is probably surprised that someone was willing to publish it.