Corpus - Rory Clements

A gripping spy thriller for fans of ROBERT HARRIS and WILLIAM BOYD from award-winning Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements and author of the 2018 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER WINNER, NUCLEUS 1936.
Europe is in turmoil.
The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland.
In
Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in
civil war. In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the
Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist.
Within weeks,
she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers. In
an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the
very heart of government. When a renowned society couple with fascist
leanings are found brutally murdered, a maverick Cambridge professor is
drawn into a world of espionage he knows only from history books.
The
deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with
the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the
scandal surrounding the Abdication . . . Set against the
gathering drumbeat of war and moving from Berlin to Cambridge, from
Whitehall to the Kent countryside, and from the Fens to the Aragon Front
in Spain, this big canvas international thriller, like C J Sansom's
WINTER IN MADRID, marks the beginning of a brilliant new direction for
Rory Clements. Praise for CORPUS 'Dramatic . . . pacy and assured . . . Well crafted, it has all the pleasures of an intriguing lead character, intricate plot and fascinating historical context' Daily Mail 'Rory Clements's timely spy thriller set in the 1930s evokes a period of political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence. Corpus is fast-paced and there are plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing. This is the first of a promising series and Wilde is a likeable hero' The Times 'This clever novel, rich in deceptions and intrigue, shows the reach of Stalin and Hitler into every class of British society, threatening violence on horrific scale. Corpus is a standout historical novel and spy thriller'
Daily Express Praise for RORY CLEMENTS 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists'
Sunday Telegraph