Rudi Graf has dreamt since childhood of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, along with his friend Werner von Braun, he has helped create the world’s most sophisticated weapon- the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead that travels at three times the speed of sound.
In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built.
Now, in the winter of 1944, Graf finds himself in a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. Haunted and disillusioned, he’s tasked with firing the V2s at London. Nobody understands the volatile, deadly machine better than he does.
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the WAAF. She has experienced firsthand the horror of a V2 strike. As the rockets rain down, she joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium.Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues hope to locate and destroy the launch sites.
But for every action on one side, there is an equal and opposite reaction on the other. As the death toll soars, the seperate stories of Graf and Kay ricochet off one another until, in a final explosion of violence, their destinies are forced together.
