V2

A riveting read . . . with a corker of a twist. * Telegraph * [I]mmersive and engaging. * Guardian * V2 is a stunning achievement; a gripping page-turner that remains highly thought-provoking. * Daily Express * 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. * Financial Times * 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. * The Times * Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller'. * Observer * 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. * Daily Express * Robert Harris has always been ingenious at finding ways to write about the Second World War [...] It's highly readable . . . thrillingly tense. * S Magazine, Sunday Express * 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. * Daily Telegraph *