Act of Oblivion: The Thrilling new novel from the no. 1 bestseller Robert Harris

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He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' Harris, Robert. "Robert Harris: 'The Ghost' of Tony Blair". NPR.org. NPR . Retrieved 9 December 2015. I почти никак � Lattanzio, Ryan (28 February 2020). "César Awards 2020: 'Les Misérables' Wins Best Film, No-Show Roman Polanski Takes Best Director". IndieWire . Retrieved 29 February 2020. Robert Harris is one of my favourite authors, so a new book by him is always something to look forward to. This one sounded particularly interesting, dealing with a manhunt that takes place in 17th century New England, a setting Harris has never written about before.

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All of the characters in the book were real people with one exception: Richard Nayler, the chief regicide hunter. Harris has filled in gaps in what we know of the personalities of the principals and the events of their lives from 1660 onward. VI. The like by reason of any Commission by the late or present King, or by Colour of any Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament, or the late Protector, &c. Harris’s book alternates between the story of the persecution of the regicides in London and the flight of Whalley and Goffe across New England. Relentlessly pursued, the pair trek hundreds of miles across inhospitable territory, hiding out in barns, attics and caves, harboured by Native Americans and millenarian cultists. There are hairsbreadth escapes aplenty but also a good deal of downtime, in which Whalley – cousin and boyhood companion of Cromwell, and later his commissary general of cavalry – reminisces about the “half mad” Protector and the events of the Civil War.

Richard and Judy ask Robert Harris". W H Smith. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014 . Retrieved 22 April 2015. A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare (with Jeremy Paxman). London: Chatto & Windus, March 1982 ISBN 978-0-7011-2585-1 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I—a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. X. Exceptions out of this pardon. All murders not comprised in the first clause of this pardon excepted. Piracy excepted. Buggery. Rape and the wilful taking away any maid excepted. Double marriages excepted Witchcraft excepted I. Jac. I. C. II. Accounts of certain treasures and receivers. 13 Car. 2. Stat. I. C. 3. The Harris novel The Fear Index, focusing on the 2010 Flash Crash, was published by Hutchinson in September 2011. It follows an American expat hedge fund operator living in Geneva who activates a new system of computer algorithms that he names VIXAL-4, which is designed to operate faster than human beings, but which begins to become uncontrollable by its human operators. It was adapted as a 4-part limited series starring Josh Hartnett in 2022. [ citation needed] An Officer and a Spy (2013) [ edit ]

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In June 2018 Harris reiterated his support for Polanski, and branded criticisms of Polanski's crimes as being a problem of culture and fashion. "The culture has completely changed....And so the question is: "Do you then say, OK fine, I follow the culture.' Or do I say: 'Well, he hasn't done anything since then. He won the Oscar, he got a standing ovation in Los Angeles.' The zeitgeist has changed. Do you change with it? I don't know, to be honest with you. Morally, I don't see why I should change my position because the fashion has changed." [23] TV appearances and radio broadcasts [ edit ] In 2007, after Blair resigned, Harris dropped his other work to write The Ghost. The title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances. The dead man has been ghosting the autobiography of a recently unseated British prime minister called Adam Lang, a thinly veiled version of Blair. [6] The fictional counterpart of Cherie Blair is depicted as a sinister manipulator of her husband. Harris told The Guardian before publication: "The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him." [7]In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture—dead or alive. . . . XXVIII. This act not to extend to goods to be restored upon the act for repeal of two act for sequestrations.