Friday 28 November 2014

Dominion CJ SANSSOM



Dominion asks the question what would happen if Britain had capitulated after the Dunkirk escape? How would Europe have changed the book is set in 1950s when the third Reich had finished on the western front and Britain is a fascist state under Prime minster Mosley.    David Fitzgerald is an unremarkable civil servant who has started to leak documents to Churchill resistance. He’s given a mission to smuggle an old school friend with a terrible secret out of the county. However the German army the British fascist and the SS will do anything to posses it.

This is a slow burner to start with having a glacial pace that really builds the drab grey atmosphere of post war fifties with a horrific Nazi twist. As with all of Sansoms work the research is impeccable and he delves into some of the facts behind the fiction at the end of the book. However you never get the feeling the writer is trying to blind you with information. “Never Mind the plot feel my research!” not naming names *cough* Kate Moss *cough*


In a sentence, it’s end of the affair meets Len Deighton 

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