NEMESIS

NEMESIS: August 1939. In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death. On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant Cambridge student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades, languishing in the Camp du Vernet, where refugees from the Spanish Civil War are detained. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile in the Atlantic a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia with many casualties, including Americans. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and lure America into the war. As the strands of an international conspiracy unwind, Wilde finds himself in great personal danger. Exactly who is Marcus Marfield? And where do his loyalties lie?

RORY CLEMENTS is the Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling author of the Tom Wilde and John Shakespeare series of thrillers. His books have sold to thirteen countries. Corpus and Nucleus (shortlisted for two prestigious awards) are the first novels in the Tom Wilde series, and Nemesis - to be published in January 2019 - will be the third. He has just signed a new deal with Bonnier Zaffre for three more novels in the series. Clements, a former national newspaper journalist, writes full-time in rural Norfolk, England.