The gripping spy thriller for fans of Robert Harris from
Sunday Times
bestseller Rory Clements, author of the award-winning
NUCLEUS.
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1936 — Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war.
In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.
In an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the very heart of government. 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. 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 . . .
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 sweeping international thriller, like C J Sansom’s WINTER IN MADRID, marks the beginning of a brilliant new series for Rory Clements.
What the critics are saying about CORPUS:
‘
Dramatic . . .
pacy and assured . . . 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 .
Corpus is
fast-paced and there are plenty of
red herrings to keep you guessing. 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
a standout historical novel and spy thriller ‘
Daily Express
Об авторе
RORY CLEMENTS writes full time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, where he lives with his wife, the artist Naomi Clements Wright. He is a Sunday Times bestselling author, and twice winner of the CWAHistorical Dagger Award, for Revenger and Nucleus. Three of his other novels — Martyr, Prince and The Heretics — have been shortlisted for awards. Munich Wolf is Rory’s fifteenth novel, and the first featuring Munich detective Sebastian Wolff. His books have sold over 1 million copies to date.
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