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  • Published: 1 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099527923
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $26.99

Enigma

From the Sunday Times bestselling author




THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'Top-class' The Times

March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears.

'A compulsive page turner' Daily Mail
'As human, intelligent and gripping as documentary fiction can get' Financial Times

  • Published: 1 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099527923
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of thirteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby. His next book, V2, is coming out in autumn 2020.

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Praise for Enigma

The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff. Peter Millar

The Times

Enigma totally gripped me

Sunday Times

After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer

Mail on Sunday

Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come

Evening Standard

I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked

Observer

Blends carefully researched fact with brilliantly realised fiction... a compulsive page turner until its surprising secrets are finally decrypted

Daily Mail

A first class plot... the characters steadily evolve and deepen. Out of wartime Cambridge and Bletchley lurches the computer age

Daily Telegraph

The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff.

Peter Millar, The Times

Enigma totally gripped me

Roy Jenkins, Sunday Times

After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer

Phillip Knightley, Mail on Sunday

Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come

T. J. Binyon, Evening Standard

I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked

David Cannadine, Observer

Blends carefully researched fact with brilliantly realised fiction... a compulsive page turner until its surprising secrets are finally decrypted

Correlli Barnett, Daily Mail

A first class plot... the characters steadily evolve and deepen. Out of wartime Cambridge and Bletchley lurches the computer age

Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph

After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer

Mail on Sunday

Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come

Evening Standard

I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked

Observer

The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff. Peter Millar

The Times

Enigma totally gripped me

Sunday Times

Blends carefully researched fact with brilliantly realised fiction... a compulsive page turner until its surprising secrets are finally decrypted

Daily Mail

A first class plot... the characters steadily evolve and deepen. Out of wartime Cambridge and Bletchley lurches the computer age

Daily Telegraph