V2

De: Robert Harris

Narrado por: David Rintoul

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

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A riveting read . . . with a corker of a twist.

[I]mmersive and engaging.

V2 is a stunning achievement; a gripping page-turner that remains highly thought-provoking.

An immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop . . . For all its pace - you will zip through it in no time - the rewards are in the meta-story. But Harris's deceptively effortless prose means you barely notice. The effect is one of total immersion: you can feel the cold, taste the bacon sandwiches and imagine the trolleys squeaking across the floor.

I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled.

Harris renders the historical detail with his customary verisimilitude.

Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller'.

This is a lively read, as propulsive as the rockets of the title, and it masterfully captures the bleak, jaded atmosphere of the Second World War's death throes.

Robert Harris has always been ingenious at finding ways to write about the Second World War [...] It's highly readable . . . thrillingly tense.

Harris finds the poetry in physics and the soul in engineering. He makes the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human characters . . . His prose can be wonderfully vivid... Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting.

Very disappointing. Disjointed and very "thin".

In the credits, Harris states it was written during the lockdown and maybe that is the explanation for this misfire. I am a big fan and pre-ordered this, and so am even more disappointed.

The usual mix of interesting historically accurate (?) events and some character development - though a lot less than usual. It was all so disjointed. All of sudden I am fast-forwarded by a few months and no explanation of what had happened in-between times. It felt like the book had to be drastically edited or it was a short story that was bloated out to be a full novel?

If you're a fan then you will buy it anyway, if your not I really wouldn't use any credits.

I'll go and sit in the corner and be sad for a while now. :(