The brilliance of Enigma is that it gives readers the sense of being contemporary with its characters and then leads them on a dark journey of discovery to arrive at another of the Second World War's blackest horror stories, one not fully admitted until half a century later... Altogether top-class stuff. Peter Millar ? The Times

Enigma totally gripped me ? Sunday Times

After the resounding success of his first novel, Fatherland, the question was what would Robert Harris do for an encore? This is his resounding answer ? Mail on Sunday

Extraordinarily good... undoubtedly the best thriller of the year, and perhaps of several years to come ? Evening Standard

I finished the book regretful it had ended, and full of wonder at this extraordinary world, people and achievements it evoked ? Observer

Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep and V2. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.