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Spring 1940. The world is on the brink of the biggest war ever known. At a meeting in Downing Street Britain's leaders decide who is to succeed the exhausted appeaser Neville Chamberlain. But when Winston Churchill is persuaded to serve under Lord Halifax history as we know it is turned on its head. Winter 1952. Though war rages on in the east Britain is 'at peace' with Nazi Germany; the free press has been suspended the streets are patrolled by violent auxiliary police the British Jews face ever tighter constraints and there are dark terrible rumours about what is happening in the basement of Senate House ...Meanwhile Civil Servant David Fitzgerald recruited as a spy by Churchill's proscribed organisation must complete a mission of desperate importance. His old friend Frank Muncaster may have obtained top-secret information with striking ramifications. But David is not the only one looking for Frank and soon the pair -- along with others in their cell and David's terrified wife Sarah -- will find themselves fugitives in their own country fleeing not just for their lives but for the future itself. At once a startling sinister reimagining of 1950s Britain and a gripping humane spy thriller with DOMINION C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel. ; ;