For the avid reader, discerning collector, historical fiction and real C. J. Sansom - fan,
a like new, signed, limited 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
C. J. Sansom
Dominion
Mantle, London / UK, 2012
Your copy is number 301 (of 1500 of this limited edition). It is signed by C.J. Sansom in black pen to the limitation page, is unread and like new and comes in a protective mylar cover (see photos).
"At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.
1952.
Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and
Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German
war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find
themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and
television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary
police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are
terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the
German Embassy at Senate House.
Defiance, though, is growing. In
Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a
thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an
incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could
change the balance of the world struggle for ever.
Civil Servant
David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given
the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the
country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance
activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great
Smog; as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more
terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is
Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of
men . . ." (panmacmillan.com)
"C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA
and then a Ph.D. in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he
retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a
full-time writer. Sansom is the bestselling author of the acclaimed
Shardlake series, the Spanish Civil War thriller Winter in Madrid and the number one bestseller Dominion. He lives in Sussex." (panmacmillan.com)