The getting to the end of the plot was a little ham fisted in my opinion. I enjoyed the general setting, and the main plot had potential. I would have given 2.75 if that was an option. Read moreĪ long book in need of a good editing. 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 keep and the bonds they share. Now, in the first alternative history epic from Sansom in the tradition of Robert Harris's Fatherland and Stephen King's 11/22/63, Sansom doesn't just recreate the past-he reinvents it. Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned him 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, along with David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.Ĭ.J. And in a Birmingham mental hospital, fragile scientist Frank Muncaster holds a secret that could alter the balance of the global struggle forever.Ĭivil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. British Jews face ever greater constraints.īut Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. The press, radio and television are tightly controlled. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.ġ952. (Jan.At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C.J. 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.

Dominion by cj sansom