Dominion

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The story centres around a young man of Irish and (hidden) Jewish descent who is climbing the ladder in Whitehall while also participating in the resistance movement (Led by Churchill as a Charles de Gaulle substitute).

Indeed the best bit of the book is the 10 page or so explanation at the end, which contains everything of value in the 500 pages of the novel. m. 9th May 1940) when – in this instance - Lord Halifax becomes prime minister instead of Churchill. In justifying his portrayal, Samson quotes Clement Atlee, the post-war Labour prime minister, who said that the press baron was the most evil person he had ever met.There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.

It read to me very much like the author didn't really know how he was going to end it until he started writing the last chapter. The result of this freedom of information policy is that nothing major is a surprise to the reader, and there are many many scenes of characters discussing and pondering the significance of something that the reader already knows.But I can see that plenty of other readers really appreciated it, so I think this one comes down to personal taste.