The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland;Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii and Imperium. "The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can seethat now. I should have said, ‘Rick, I'm sorry, this isn't for me, Idon't like the sound of it,' finished my drink and left. But he was such agood storyteller, Rick — I often thought he should have been thewriter and I the agent — that once he'd started talking there wasnever any question I wouldn't listen, and by the time he had finished, Iwas done for." After five books set firmly in the past, Robert Harris returns with acontemporary novel that brings the reader face to face with some of thebiggest issues of our time — the result is a gripping and genuinelythrilling read.