In a spellbinding tale of suspense, oppression and poignant love, Dominion dares to explore how, in moments of crisis, history can turn on the decisions of a few brave men and women - the secrets they choose to keep and the bonds they share. Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn't just recreate the past - he reinvents it. Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned Sansom comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.Ĭ.J. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.Ĭivil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule - the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.īut Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany.
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