Enigma

By (author) Harris, Robert
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Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare.
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**ROBERT HARRIS RETURNS TO ANCIENT ROME IN AGRIPPA -- OUT NOW**

SECRETS AND INTRIGUE IN WARTIME BLETCHLEY PARK.

''Top-class'' THE TIMES
''A compulsive page turner'' DAILY MAIL

March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho''s girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears.

''As human, intelligent and gripping as documentary fiction can get'' FINANCIAL TIMES

Robert Harris, Sunday Times bestselling author, May 2024

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The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War''s blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff. Peter Millar
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Enigma totally gripped me
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After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer
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Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come
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I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked
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Blends carefully researched fact with brilliantly realised fiction... a compulsive page turner until its surprising secrets are finally decrypted
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A first class plot... the characters steadily evolve and deepen. Out of wartime Cambridge and Bletchley lurches the computer age
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The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War''s blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff.
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Enigma totally gripped me
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After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer
Biographical note:
Robert Harris is the author of sixteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep, V2, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.
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A number one bestselling war thriller from the award-winning master of the literary and historical thriller genre: Robert Harris. Adapted into an award-winning film, with screenplay by Tom Stoppard, starring Kate Winslet and Saffron Burrows.