Act of Oblivion

***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS*** A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 ''A belter of a thriller'' THE TIMES ''A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment'' OBSERVER ''His best since Fatherland'' SUNDAY TIMES ''From what is it they flee?'' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ''They killed the King.'' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their capture, dead or alive. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He''ll stop at nothing until