V2

Harris is such a literary and historical giant that it’s easy to take him for granted. The tension in the recent film, Munich: The Edge of War, was palpable, but V2 is even more gripping, an eye-opening and rattling good yarn set over a period of just a few critical days at a time when the Nazis were increasing their deadly rocket attacks on England.

I especially enjoyed how artfully the two stories were woven together, as it portrays the crisis from two opposite standpoints: the male German engineer drawn into the nightmarish world of Hitler’s fanaticism, and that of… show more.

This is a novel that feels like a journalistic reportage, as it is almost factual in the way it is crisply written and for the accuracy of the historical detail the author injected in his story. I liked the exploration of the moral and ethical dilemma that German scientists faced in the development of the V2 rocket technology. Suspenseful and fascinating, with credible characters, Robert Harris masterfully depicts the two sides of the story in a well-paced page-turner that makes an informative, engrossing, and interesting read.