A gripping spy thriller for fans of ROBERT HARRIS & WILLIAM BOYD from award-winning Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements 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
- & even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication Set against the gathering drumbeat of war & moving from Berlin to Cambridge from Whitehall to the Kent countryside & 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 & assured Well crafted it has all the pleasures of an intriguing lead character intricate plot & fascinating historical context' Daily Mail' Rory Clements's timely spy thriller set in the 1930s evokes a period of political polarisation mistrust & simmering violence Corpus is fast-paced & there are plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing This is the first of a promising series & Wilde is a likeable hero' The Times' This clever novel rich in deceptions & intrigue shows the reach of Stalin & Hitler into every class of British society threatening violence on horrific scale Corpus is a standout historical novel & spy thriller' Daily Express Praise for RORY CLEMENTS' Enjoyable bloody & brutish' Guardian' Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail'A colourful history lesson exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph