Return trip to Munich pays off for old hand Harris

Fiction: Munich, By Robert Harris, Hutchinson, €23

Robert Harris: his latest thriller captures the tension in the days building up to World War II Pic: Rex

Fiction: Munich, By Robert Harris, Hutchinson, €23

You don’t get great art from Robert Harris, as he himself would probably be the first to admit. What you do get, in spades, are careful craftsmanship and plotting, as failsafe and intricate as the expensive Swiss watches that half the characters in his novels probably wear.

Harris is the Steady Eddie of the thriller world, cranking out a potboiler every two years on average, each ...