Product Description

Spring 1943, the Allies are winning the war in the Atlantic thanks to Bletchley Park breaking the German submarine Enigma code. But suddenly, with three large Allied convoys sailing towards Britain, the Germans change the code. Their lives and the outcome of the war hang in the balance. Tom Jericho, the brilliant cryptanalyst who broke the original code is brought from his sickbed to do it again. Meanwhile the security of the whole Enigma operation is at risk and Jericho's ex-lover Claire has disappeared in highly suspect circumstances.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1235673 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-04
• Released on: 1999-06-21
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• 360 pages

Review
"After the stunning success of his first novel, "Fatherland," the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his ersounding answer." -- Phillip Knightley, "Mail on Sunday"
"Extraordinarily good -- and undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come." -- T.J. Binyon, "Evening Standard"
"I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at the extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked." -- David Cannadine, "Observer"
"Altogether top-class stuff" -- Peter Millar, "The Times"

"From the Paperback edition."

About the Author
Robert Harris was born in Nottingham in 1957 and is a graduate of Cambridge University. He has been a reporter on the BBC's Newsnight and Panorama programmes, Political Editor of the Observer, and a columnist on the Sunday Times. (19950214)