Nucleus

Nucleus is the award-winning 'standout historical novel and spy thriller' (Daily Express) from the Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements. June 1939 - England is partying like there's no tomorrow . . . but the good times won't last. The Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, in Germany Jewish persecution is widespread and, closer to home, the IRA has embarked on a bombing campaign.Perhaps most worryingly of all, in Germany Otto Hahn has produced man-made fission and an atomic device is now possible. German High Command knows Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is also close, and when one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is drawn into the investigation. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin, and from the US to Ireland, can he discover the truth before it's too late? Praise for RORY CLEMENTS: 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph

The history of this episode is eventful enough and, in this second of the Wilde series, the author whips it up into an additionally dramatic, twisty thriller., Dramatic . . . pacy and assured, 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, Rory Clements evokes the nervous, reckless build up to the outbreak of war in a convincingly detailed thriller, an elegant, tense spy thriller

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.