Pantheon
By (Author) Sam Bourne
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
1st November 2012
5th July 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
432
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
300g
The darkest secrets of World War II finally revealed. The number one bestseller returns with his most explosive book to date.
Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism. And James Zennor, a brilliant, troubled, young Oxford don is horrified. He returns one morning from rowing to discover that his wife has disappeared with their young son, leaving only a note declaring her continuing love.
A frantic search through wartime England leads James across the Atlantic and to one of Americas greatest universities, its elite clubs and secret societies right to the heart of the American establishment. And in his hunt for his family, James unearths one of the darkest and deadliest secrets of a world at war
***** Shifting his focus from hi-tech present day conspiracies to a very dark chapter of the second world war, Bourne has proved he can more than rub shoulders with the likes of John Le Carre and Robert Harris. Mirror
Pantheon is a propulsive, satisfying novel which burns with moral indignation, earning Bourne his place at the thriller-writers' high table. Guardian
Ingeniously constructed a page-turner which maintains the tension Observer
An intelligent thriller with a vividly drawn wartime atmosphere Independent
A compelling story that combines the personal traumas of war, its headline dramas and the tragic tension that can arise between them. A disturbing delight. A D Miller, author of SNOWDROPS
Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He has written a weekly column for the Guardian since 1997, having previously served as the papers Washington correspondent, and presents Radio 4s contemporary history programme, The Long View.In the annual What the Papers Say Awards of 2002 Jonathan Freedland was named Columnist of the Year, and in 2008 he won the David Watt Prize for Journalism. His first novel, The Righteous Men, was a Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. His subsequent novels have all been top five bestsellers. He lives in London with his wife and their two children.