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. Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn't just recreate the past-he reinvents it. Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned Sansom comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway. 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.Ĭ.J. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.Ĭivil 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. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule-the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.īut Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. SANSOM REWRITES HISTORY IN A THRILLING NOVEL THAT DARES TO IMAGINE BRITAIN UNDER THE THUMB OF NAZI GERMANY.ġ952. Fans of such Nazi triumphant novels as Len Deighton’s SS-GB and Robert Harris’s Fatherland will find this a satisfying, if more predictable read. Sansom’s prose is as assured as ever, but his plotting doesn’t match that of his clever Elizabethan historicals (Dissolution, etc.). David Fitzgerald, a senior official in the Dominions Office, begins to rebel against his country’s leadership after the tragic accidental death of his almost-three-year-old son, and is tapped to aid the resistance in a plan to free a scientist who carries a potentially world-changing secret. While the country is not technically under Nazi occupation, its citizens live in fear of speaking their minds, and Churchill heads a shadowy resistance movement. Later that year, Britain makes peace with Germany. In the intriguing prologue of Sansom’s solid what-if historical thriller, British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax succeeds Neville Chamberlain as prime minister on May 9, 1940, instead of Winston Churchill.
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