Act of Oblivion
- Author Robert Harris
- Narrator Tim McInnerny
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 15 hours and 43 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical crime and mysteries, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
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'From what is it they flee?'
He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'
1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason.
In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He'll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of £100 hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive.
ACT OF OBLIVION is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.
© Robert Harris 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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One of Harris’s most compellingly paced to date . . . it is his best since Fatherland
Sunday Times -
Act of Oblivion is a belter of a thriller. It will be compulsive reading for those who loved An Officer and a Spy, Harris’s book about the Dreyfus affair. Like that novel, the research is immaculate. A chewy, morally murky slice of history is made into a thriller that twists and surprises. The characters are strong and we care about their predicament. The story stretches over continents and years, but the suspense feels as taut as if the three main characters were locked in a room with a gun.
The Times -
Act of Oblivion is a fine novel about a divided nation, about invisible wounds that heal slower than visible ones . . . it feels like an important book for our particular historical moment, one that shows the power of forgiveness and the intolerable burden of long-held grudges
Observer -
Harris’s books are always supremely readable – he has practically trademarked the term ‘master storyteller’
Observer -
[Harris] writes with a skill and ingenuity that few other novelists can match
Financial Times
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