V2

[I]mmersive and engaging.

Crime and Thrillers round-up, Guardian

V2 is a stunning achievement; a gripping page-turner that remains highly thought-provoking.

Matt Nixson, Daily Express

An immersive thriller set against a tense historical backdrop . . . For all its pace - you will zip through it in no time - the rewards are in the meta-story. But Harris's deceptively effortless prose means you barely notice. The effect is one of total immersion: you can feel the cold, taste the bacon sandwiches and imagine the trolleys squeaking across the floor.

Financial Times

I want to be the first to say it: Robert Harris scores a direct hit with V2. I was enthralled.

Anthony Horowitz

Harris renders the historical detail with his customary verisimilitude.

Thrillers of the Month, The Times

Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller'.

Alex Preston, Observer

This is a lively read, as propulsive as the rockets of the title, and it masterfully captures the bleak, jaded atmosphere of the Second World War's death throes.

Daily Express

Robert Harris has always been ingenious at finding ways to write about the Second World War [...] It's highly readable . . . thrillingly tense.

S Magazine, Sunday Express

Harris finds the poetry in physics and the soul in engineering. He makes the V2s come to life as vividly as any of his human characters . . . His prose can be wonderfully vivid... Harris has the great gift of readability; there is no living novelist whose books I am likelier to gobble up in one sitting.

Daily Telegraph