Description
Title: Precipice
Author: Harris, Robert
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26/08/2025
Imprint: PENGUIN
ISBN: 9781804941294
Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris.
With themes of love, deception, rivalry and grand world events, this will be our biggest paperback campaign yet
THE BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES, INDEPENDENT, SPECTATOR, i NEWS
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A riveting tale of politics, war and erotic obsession’ Sunday Times
‘A slam dunk of a plot . . . extraordinary’ Nicholas Coleridge, Independent
Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.
In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history.
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