Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two,where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler,and win the war.
March 1943,the Second World War hangs in the balance,and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code,threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley,Jericho's girlfriend,the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9780099527923Number of pages: 464Weight: 319 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
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'The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories,one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff.'- Peter Millar,The Times
'Enigma totally gripped me.'- Sunday Times
'After the resounding success of his first novel,Fatherland,the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore This is his resounding answer.'- Mail on Sunday
'Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year,and perhaps of several years to come.'- Evening Standard
'I finished the book regretful it had ended,and full of wonder at this extraordinary world,people and achievements it evoked.'- Observer
Robert Harris
A heavyweight of historical fiction with a knack for creating page-turning political thrillers with literary credence,Robert Harris is best known for the'what if'masterpiece Fatherland and his Cicero series as well as the controversial Blairite-era roman à clef,The Ghost.
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