The hero, David Fitzgerald, is a civil servant hiding his Jewishness and trying to preserve his marriage which is collapsing under the pressure of his secret life as a spy for the Resistance. I found I had to force myself to plough on to the end, and if I hadn't been listening to the audio book version, I'm pretty sure I would have put it aside for later about halfway through and not bothered to pick it up again. Annoyingly, there IS one piece of information kept arbitrarily from us, and that is the Big Secret that the hapless scientist, Frank Muncaster, has inadvertently learned from his drunken brother.

Dominion, al igual que todos los otros titulos de CJ Sansom que he leido con anterioridad me ha cautivado desde las primeras paginas.

In a fit of camaraderie, Frank reveals the secret to David who is trying to get Frank off to America with the help of other resistance workers.

The scene on the beach below Rottingdean on the Suffolk coast takes verisimilitude to the Senate House, the SS headquarters in London, and tortures it out of existence.So, for example, in Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the second world war extends to 1947, while for Deighton it ends in 1941. El estilo narrativo del autor no solo te captura, sino que ademas te transporta a otra epoca, con descripciones de una realidad que casi puedes tocar.

This is an alternative vision of 50s Great Britian after the war, as if Churchill did not take power and we do not win the war in 1945. Birmingemo psichiatrinę ligoninę patenka mokslininkas Frankas Muncasteris iš savo brolio, dirbančio amerikiečiams nugirdęs kai ką, kas labai praverstų vokiečiams.Following the tragic death of their child, his wife thinks he is having an affair, but when she finds out his real role, and is questioned by the authorities, she is drawn in to the activities of the resistance reluctantly. Then there is Denmark, the ‘model’ protectorate, a country occupied by the Germans but one that still managed to undermine Nazi policy towards the Jews. It is a brick of a book at 690 pages and is split into 57 chapters with various additional sections before and after the main narrative.