C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to
imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany.
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers
and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains
against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in
the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly
authoritarian rule -- the press, radio, and television tightly
controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
But Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows, whispers
circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global
struggle. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who
languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.
Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University
friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out
of the country. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a
brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's
innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.
C.J. Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned Sansom
comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway.
Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn't just recreate
the past -- he reinvents it. In a spellbinding tale of suspense,
oppression and poignant love, Dominion dares to explore how, in moments
of crisis, history can turn on the decisions of a few brave men and
women -- the secrets they choose to keep and the bonds they share.
