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Samson has simply advanced beyond his fictitious present to a real future, to Powell’s 1960s warning over the possible effects of mass immigration. There is a paucity of interesting narrative in the novel, caused by the heavy attention to historical detail and certain ideas therein. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Things work well in this novel, it’s not quite as good as his Shardlake series (which I highly recommend) but it was an interesting listen nonetheless. It is set in 1952, twelve years after Britain surrenders to Germany and becomes a satellite state of the Third Reich.Annoyingly, there IS one piece of information kept arbitrarily from us, and that is the Big Secret that the hapless scientist, Frank Muncaster, has inadvertently learned from his drunken brother.

So the narrative viewpoint is split between the evil baddie Nazi Gestapo commander who is sent to the UK to capture a British scientist with a military secret, a decent British chap who is spying for the Resistance, decent chap's insipid wife, and the scientist with undiagnosed Aspergers and a long-winded boarding school backstory. The Germans do not occupy Britain, but make no mistake about it, the nation is still very much under their sphere of influence, two examples of which are the tightening Jewish laws, and the ubiquitous presence of armed police.The only thing that made this less than absolutely perfect was some of the amateurish things that the Germans did towards the end - I forgave the author though as I have so much love for the rest of the book. Sansom himself was "Very Highly Commended" in the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library award, for the Shardlake series.