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Published in 2022, this is not Harris's latest novel (that would be 2024's Precipice, which is also excellent). But it was the last one my father gave me, and the last one he read, before he died. He gave me Harris' first novel, Fatherland, when it came out in 1992, and ever since we exchanged copies and chatted about each new Harris book. Harris is a master craftsman of the historical novel, and Act of Oblivion is no exception. Both England and New England in the late-17th century are brought vividly (and terrifyingly) to life. The main character is fictional, but he is the only one who is—a very effective contrivance. So yes, this novel has some personal meaning to me, but I still think that objectively speaking this is historical fiction at its absolute best!
'A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES 'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER 'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES
'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'
1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
A frighteningly realistic spy story, set in modern Britain, with an ageing hero who has prostate problems, battling the prospect of an creeping privatisation of SIS, the British intelligence service that traces its heritage back to the 16th century days of Good Queen Bess. The tale in spiced with two elderly and one young woman are intelligent, likable and credible. The author, a well-known and well-travelled Scottish journalist who also served in the ranks of SIS, knows his territory, its people and its skills at betrayal.
When investigator Septimus Brass delves into the strange death of an intelligence officer and the vanishing of two others, he encounters a web of official deceit.
The stakes are high. Some government ministers are eager to dismantle the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6.
The world's largest private security firm is ready to buy up the remnants of the Ziggurat, the SIS headquarters on London's Albert Embankment.
Without the SIS, the UK will be left vulnerable in a dangerous world.
