The highest form of thriller... non-stop excitement The Times Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail Daily Telegraph Clever and ingenious... Its breeding is by Orwell, out of P. D. James, a detective story inside a future shock Daily Mail A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock Guardian Robert Harris has recreated the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep Sunday Times Gripping in the way John Buchan, Len Deighton and John LeCarre are. The writing is superb. This novel lifts its author into a new and superior class The Times Tightly constructed... grips as tightly as a Nazi's glove Independent on Sunday A fantastic thriller... The final solution is an utter surprise. Harris reaches it with speed, conveying a whole culture of grotesquery and kitsch Mail on Sunday Ingenious... fast-paced and beautifully written Esquire