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**PRE-ORDER AGRIPPA NOW: THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, COMING AUGUST 2026**THE FIRST ROCKET WILL TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO HIT LONDON. KAY HAS SIX MINUTES TO STOP THE SECOND. 'Immersive' GUARDIAN'Stunning' DAILY EXPRESS'Riveting' TELEGRAPHRudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 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 will 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... '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 MacIntyreRobert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024

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''Immersive'' Guardian
''Stunning'' Daily Express
''Riveting'' Telegraph

Victory is close. Vengeance is closer.

Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world''s most sophisticated weapon: the V2 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 will 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...

''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

Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024

• | Author: Robert Harris
• | Publisher: Cornerstone
• | Publication Date: Jul 08, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781787460980
• | ISBN-10: 1787460983