V2 – ROBERT HARRIS

The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. Kay has six minutes to stop the second.

Rudi Graf once dreamed of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he helped create the world’s most sophisticated weapon: the V‑2 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 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…

**Reviews**

“Immersive” – Guardian
“Stunning” – Daily Express
“Riveting” – Telegraph
“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

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