At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant like tale, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the expert of the historical novel.

1952. Twelve years have exceeded since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the very long German battle against Russia rages on in the east, the United kingdom people find themselves under dark authoritarian guideline: the press, radio and television are about Dominion controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary law enforcement and United kingdom Jews face ever higher constraints. A couple of terrible rumours too about what is happening in the cellar of the German Embassy at Senate House.

Defiance, though, keeps growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill’s Resistance organization is significantly a thorn in the government’s part. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may keep a top secret that could modify the balance of the globe struggle permanently.

Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly operating being a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to recovery his outdated friend Frank and get him out of the country. In a short time he, together with a disparate group of Level of resistance activists, will see themselves fugitives amid London’s Great Smog; as David’s wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a globe more terrifying than she ever could possess imagined. And hard on their heels is normally Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, outstanding, implacable hunter of males .