Nucleus

Clements, Rory

ISBN 10: 1785763717 / ISBN 13: 9781785763717

Published by Zaffre, London, 2018

About this Item

First edition, first printing hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear, including light tanning to dust jacket spine and minor rippling to rear DJ foot, this leading to a dampstain on rear board at foot, with light rippling to a small section of the textblock at the associated point. Text unmarked and unaffected, pages firmly bound. CN.

Seller Inventory # 623385

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nucleus
• Publisher: Zaffre, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785763717
• ISBN 13: 9781785763717
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

The eve of war: a secret so deadly, nothing and 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, and in Germany he persecution of the Jews is now so widespread that desperate Jewish parents send their children to safety in Britain aboard the Kinder-transport. Closer to home, the IRA's S-Plan bombing campaign has resulted in more than 100 terrorist outrages around England.

But perhaps the most far-reaching event of all goes largely unreported: in Germany, Otto Hahn has produced the first man-made fission and an atomic device is now a very real possibility. The Nazis set up the Uranverein group of physicists: its task is to build a super bomb. The German High Command is aware that British and 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 and from Washington DC to the west coast of Ireland, he faces deadly forces that threaten the fate of the world.

About the Author

RORY CLEMENTS is a Sunday Times bestselling author. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award for his second novel, Revenger, and a TV series of the John Shakespeare novels is currently in development. Rory lives in Norfolk with his family. Find out more at www.roryclements.co.uk.