Henry Hitchings

Robert Harris’s gripping Act of Oblivion is let down by anachronisms

The evocation of period detail doesn’t always convince but Harris's novel is lucid and full of suspense

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  • Act of Oblivion

    Robert Harris

    Hutchinson Heinemann, pp. 464, £22

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