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Unusually for me I started reading CJ Sansom with his first book - ‘Winter in Madrid.�� Now I finish with his last book ‘Dominion.�� In between I managed to finish his Shardlake series. All the books have been excellent..

Like ‘Fatherland,�� ‘SS-GB, �� Man in the High Castle,�� and many other books we are set in an alternate reality. Britain has surrendered to Nazi Germany just before in the real world Churchill becomes PM.

David Fitzgerald, a civil servant, becomes involved with the resistance. He conceals this secret from his wife, as well as the fact that he is half Jewish. He has to help an old University chum with a great secret escape the Nazi’s.

Whilst I found the first third of the 600+ page novel slow, it kicks off with Fitzgerald ‘s exposure as an agent and then romps along to the finish.

At the end there is an interesting bibliography. Sansom also nails his colours to the mast about the sadness of the descent into Brexit ( I share his views).

I am saddened that due to the Author’s health this may be the last book he publishes. But he has left a great legacy in just a relatively few thousand pages.

Ps the storyline in ‘Dominion�� also makes me ensure the Grandchildren stair gates are safely secured at all times.