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(0)Robert Harris
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Physical Desc
xi, 429 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to...
3) Conclave
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, 118 cardinals from around the world will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men, but they are men of the world, and they have rivals. And over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A World War II German rocket engineer under orders to launch V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland and an actress-turned-English intelligence officer with a mission to neutralize the bombings land on opposite sides in a desperate hunt for a saboteur.
5) Munich
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
ALfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead...