V2

In my experience Robert Harris has never failed to deliver the goods, and V2 is no exception. It is a novelized account of the Nazi V2 rocket attacks against London during the closing months of World War II. Fictional characters rub shoulders with Wernher von Braun on the German side, while on the British side an officer of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps experiences a V2 attack firsthand and later travels to Belgium as part of a team to try to locate launch sites in occupied Holland. Harris's formula is deceptively simple, yet seemingly no one else can carry it off with his élan: deep research, presented lightly, wrapped around a compelling narrative.