From the award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author of CORPUS The eve of war: a secret so deadly, nothing & no one is safe June 1939. England is partying like there is no tomorrow, gas masks at the ready. In Cambridge the May Balls are played out with a frantic intensity
- but the good times won`t last... In Europe, the Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, & in Germany the persecution of the Jews is now so widespread that desperate Jewish parents send their children to safety in Britain aboard the Kindertransport. Closer to home, the IRA`s S-Plan bombing campaign has resulted in more than 100 terrorist outrages around Engl&. But perhaps the most far-reaching event of all goes largely unreported: in Germany, Otto Hahn has produced the first man-made fission & an atomic device is now a very real possibility. The Nazis set up the Uranverein group of physicists: its task is to build a superbomb. The German High Command is aware that British & US scientists are working on similar line. Cambridge`s Cavendish Laboratory is where the atom was split in 1932. Might the Cambridge men now win the race for a nuclear bomb? Hitler`s generals need to be sure they know all the Cavendish`s secrets. Only then will it be safe for Germany to wage war. When one of the Cavendish`s finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once more drawn into an intrigue from which there seems no escape. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin & from Washington DC to the west coast of Irel&, he faces deadly forces that threaten the fate of the world. Praise for NUCLEUS` Rory Clements evokes the nervous, reckless build-up to the outbreak of war in a convincingly detailed thriller` Daily Mail` The series really hits its stride with the second volume. The murder of a physicist is one of many storylines that Clements juggles with aplomb` Daily Express`A pulsating story that brings alive the fraught, paranoid & terrifying months when the world stood on the brink of war. Dark history with a thrilling fictional edge` Lancashire Evening Post` Well-researched & plausible, Nucleus offers an attractive combination of history & suspense` Shots Magazine`A pacy & dramatic historical spy thriller` Historical Novel Society`I am already looking forward to the next Tom Wilde novel. This is a great read` Nudge Books` Nucleus is a fascinating historical thriller which is totally convincing in its authenticity, alive with menace & teeming with characters that stay with you long after the last page is turned` Jaffa Reads Too Blog Praise for CORPUS ` Dramatic... pacy & assured` Daily Mail ` Political polarisation, mistrust & simmering violence` The Times `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