Book description
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 organisation 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 forever. Civil Servant David
Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given by
them the mission 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.
