NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program.
He lives in the village of Kintbury, England, with his wife, Gill Hornby..
His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages.
Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently An Officer and a Spy .
And what the reader comes to under - stand is that Kay\'s and Graf\'s destinies are on a collision course About author(s): ROBERT Harris is the author of thirteen previous novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer , Conspirata , The Fear Index , An Officer and a Spy , Dictator, Conclave, Munich, and The Second Sleep .
As the death toll soars, these twin stories play out against the background of the German missile campaign during the Second World War.
But at this stage in the war it\'s hard to know who, if anyone, she can trust.
Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues hope to locate and destroy the launch sites.
After she and her lover, an RAF officer, are caught in a V2 attack, she volunteers to ship out for newly liberated Bel - gium.
Meanwhile, Kay Caton-Walsh, a young English intelligence officer, is living through the turmoil of war.
And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf be - comes a prime suspect.
As the SS increases its scrutiny on the project, Graf, an engineer more than a sol - dier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line.
But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland.
Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon.
You have six minutes to stop the second.
The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program
