Act of Oblivion

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One of Harris's most compellingly paced to date . . . it is his best since Fatherland * Sunday Times * Act of Oblivion is a belter of a thriller. It will be compulsive reading for those who loved An Officer and a Spy, Harris's book about the Dreyfus affair. Like that novel, the research is immaculate. A chewy, morally murky slice of history is made into a thriller that twists and surprises. The characters are strong and we care about their predicament. The story stretches over continents and years, but the suspense feels as taut as if the three main characters were locked in a room with a gun. * The Times * Act of Oblivion is a fine novel about a divided nation, about invisible wounds that heal slower than visible ones . . . it feels like an important book for our particular historical moment, one that shows the power of forgiveness and the intolerable burden of long-held grudges * Observer * Harris's books are always supremely readable - he has practically trademarked the term 'master storyteller' -- Alex Preston * Observer * [Harris] writes with a skill and ingenuity that few other novelists can match * Financial Times * A lightning-quick thriller, the tension cranked right up throughout, and Harris' 17th century New England is so real you can almost smell it -- Tim Weaver, author of BLACKBIRD Harris (Munich) again turns a historical event into a canny page-turner. . . Harris humanizes the hunter and the hunted, and brings to life an obscure chapter in colonial American history. This further burnishes Harris's reputation as a talented author of historical suspense * Publishers Weekly * Gripping . . . Thoroughly enjoyable. . . . [This} deeply researched story is the author's brilliant reimagining of real historical events, with sympathetic characters and a compelling plot * Kirkus Reviews * Harris's cleverness, judgment and eye for detail are second to none -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * The master of the intelligent thriller * Daily Telegraph *