This big canvas international thriller marks the beginning of a major new series from bestselling, award-winning author Rory Clements.
Tom Wilde Séries
Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans un monde captivant d'espionnage et d'intrigues politiques sur fond de l'Europe tumultueuse du début du 20e siècle. Suivez le parcours d'un professeur d'histoire qui devient un héros improbable, naviguant dans un paysage dangereux d'agents secrets, de meurtres et de conspirations de grande envergure. Des rues de l'Allemagne nazie aux salles vénérables de Cambridge, ces aventures explorent des dilemmes moraux complexes et des sacrifices personnels au milieu des bouleversements mondiaux.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
Nucleus
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
The Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, in Germany Jewish persecution is widespread and, closer to home, the IRA has embarked on a bombing campaign.Perhaps, most worryingly of all, in Germany Otto Hahn has produced man-made fission and an atomic device is now possible.
In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death... On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie?
With WWII on a knife-edge, the most devestating weapon against the Nazis may not be a weapon at all...In Sunday Times bestselling Rory Clement's most intelligent, thrilling novel to date, only the truth can turn the tide of war.