A gripping spy thriller for fans of ROBERT HARRIS and WILLIAM BOYD from award-winning Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements and author of the 2018 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER WINNER, NUCLEUS 1936.
Corpus is a standout historical novel and spy thriller'
Daily Express.
This is the first of a promising series and Wilde is a likeable hero'
The Times '
This clever novel, rich in deceptions and intrigue, shows the reach of Stalin and Hitler into every class of British society, threatening violence on horrific scale.
Corpus is fast-paced and there are plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing.
Well crafted, it has all the pleasures of an intriguing lead character, intricate plot and fascinating historical context'
Daily Mail '
Rory Clements's timely spy thriller set in the 1930s evokes a period of political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence. . . pacy and assured . . .
Praise for Corpus '
Dramatic .
Set against the gathering drumbeat of war and moving from Berlin to Cambridge, from Whitehall to the Kent countryside, and from the Fens to the Aragon Front in Spain, this big canvas international thriller, like C J Sansom's WINTER IN MADRID, marks the beginning of a brilliant new direction for Rory Clements. . .
The deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication .
When a renowned society couple with fascist leanings are found brutally murdered, a maverick Cambridge professor is drawn into a world of espionage he knows only from history books.
In an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the very heart of government.
Within weeks, she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.
In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist.
Spain has erupted in civil war.
In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror.
The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland.
Europe is in turmoil.
A gripping spy thriller for fans of ROBERT HARRIS and WILLIAM BOYD from award-winning Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements and author of the 2018 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER WINNER, NUCLEUS 1936
