Dominion--------pan macmillan
The Great Smog. London. A dense, choking fog engulfs the city and beneath it, history is re-written . . .
1952.
Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and
Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German
war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find
themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and
television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary
police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are
terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the
German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing. In
Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a
thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an
incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could
change the balance of the world struggle for ever.
Civil Servant
David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given
the mission by them to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of
the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of
Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of
London's Great Smog; as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a
world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on
their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant,
implacable hunter of men . . .
At once a vivid, haunting
reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a
poignant love story, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts
himself as the master of the historical novel.