V2
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"Immersive" Guardian"Stunning" Daily Express"Riveting" TelegraphVictory is close. Vengeance is closer.Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world"s most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal "vengeance weapons" at London.Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women"s Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites.As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide ..."A riveting read with a corker of a twist" Daily Telegraph"Supremely readable" Observer"Delivers one hell of a punch" Express"Captures the real nature of war. Gripping" Ben MacIntyre